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Tucker Carlson must be outraged by Tucker Carlson

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The Tucker Carlson of early June must be outraged by the Tucker Carlson of early May.

Five weeks ago, Carlson was preoccupied with the novel coronavirus and the countermeasures various states had devised to stop it. Among cable television news hosts, Carlson was early in cautioning his audience to the scourge of the virus. That said, he found the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders to be excessive deployments of state authority, creating economic devastation out of proportion with the public health threat. A particular target was Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), whom Carlson called “the most incompetent dictatorial, self-involved governor I’ve seen in a long time.”

Carlson is of course entitled to criticize governors from his opinion perch at Fox News. But surely this rock-ribbed rule follower preached adherence to Mills’s legally promulgated restrictions. Surely he counseled everyone to comply. Surely he made clear that, misgivings aside, “things fall apart” when people take matters into their own hands.

Well, no, actually he didn’t do all that.

On his April 30 show, Carlson introduced Rick Savage, owner of the Sunday River Brewing Co. of Bethel, Maine. Frustrated by Mills’s restrictions, Savage at the moment was threatening to open his restaurant in defiance of the government. “Rick Savage has had enough of this. He owns a restaurant in Bethel, Maine. He says he is opening up tomorrow and he is daring the state to stop him,” said compliance king Tucker Carlson.

Why am I not surprised?