Dinesh D'Souza critiques Tucker Carlson for betraying conservatism by aligning with radical Islam and Iran, undermining fifty years of foreign policy. He contrasts this with Viktor Orban's successful cultural war in Hungary and notes the unified European right versus fragmented American infighting. Speculating that Carlson aims to pivot the GOP from JD Vance to Ron DeSantis, D'Souza dismisses his presidential ambitions as absurd, suggesting Trump must now ignore or crush him. Ultimately, the analysis warns that hyper-libertarianism risks accidentally empowering America's enemies. [Automatically generated summary]
It's kind of a wonderful place with a great history, and yet it's been somewhat sidelined in Europe for a long time.
And now I think on the verge of a big election, they have a chance to establish themselves as a conservative beachhead in Europe, which is needed.
Europe has become so decadent across the board that to find a little outpost that has that what we and Mayor call the pioneer spirit, very encouraging.
And Victor Orban was on this morning, and at the first glance, the guy looks like he's a, you know, he's like a salesman.
Yeah, he's just some kind of a guy who owns seven Dennis.
But then you realize that this is a guy with not only great political savvy, but I think he's got the shrewdness to realize that you have to win not just the political war, but the cultural war.
And his party fights the cultural war.
I mean, they have think tanks, they've got publications, they don't concede permanent authority culturally to the left.
And of course, this conference brings a lot of the right wing from all over Europe.
And so you run into the guy from Estonia and the guy from, you know, and what's cool about it is that those guys, I mean, the left does this so routinely that they're coordinated globally.
The right is not.
I remember going back to the Reagan years, you know, you'd find some commonality with the right-wingers in England, right?
But if you met a right-winger in France, you felt like you're not even on the same planet with that guy, because that guy's talking about throwing an altar.
Why the French Revolution was a mistake.
And so the European right seemed very alien to us.
But I think now there's a mega movement that is global.
No, and it clearly has all circled around the immigration issue.
But let me, since I've discussed that with almost everyone else, and that's what much of the conference has been about, let me ask you something that you and I have been focused on back home, which is some of the infighting on the right.
It hasn't really leaked into this, which has been nice.
But we're seeing some, you know, people are calling it the podcast wars or whatever now, you know, Tucker and some of these other people have become.
You have to be because, you know, it started out as a fight over Israel and it started out what seemed to me a very distasteful, unseemly, malicious attack on the Jews and on Israel.
I did not expect to see the second phase of it, which is now in full flower, and it is a taking the side of the radical Muslims.
I mean, not just taking the side of Islam, taking the side of the radical Muslims.
I mean, if you look at the Iranian regime and what it represents, it doesn't even represent Iran.
The mullahs will happily say it's about Islam.
It's not about Iran.
And so defending them Makes nonsense of what the right has been talking about in foreign policy for half a century.
Because Iran, going back, first of all, Iran represents radical Islam getting a hold of a major state.
It's been a thorn in the side of America and the West for 50 years.
And so this is well understood by a guy like Tucker, maybe less so by some of the others, but Tucker for sure.
And so the willful repudiation of the conservatism that Tucker himself represented along with us for many years is eerie and disturbing at a very personal as well as ideological level.
Do you think there's anything Donald Trump should do right now to heal some of this?
Or does he just need a big win in Iran and a big win on the economy and a couple peace deals and then he can sort of sail towards the midterms and feel good about everything?