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The online Right has found a curious new bogeyman: Winston Churchill. In a new Tucker Carlson interview, guest Darryl Cooper — the man behind the online account Martyr Made — has called Churchill “the chief villain of the Second World War” and blamed the man widely acclaimed as the “greatest Briton” for the conflict becoming “something other than an invasion of Poland”.
Tucker questions whether Winston Churchill was a hero or not pic.twitter.com/7nd7tKu2RU
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) September 3, 2024
Conservatives were quick to criticise Cooper and Carlson, and one commentator called the statements “unbelievably uninformed”. However, several anonymous Right-wing accounts got on board with the idea, casting the PM as the figurehead of the foreign-policy interventionism the Right has recently come to loathe. Will Churchill’s German counterpart get a rebrand next?
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SubscribeIts no surprise that Tucker takes this position, Tucker is a paleoconservative and a devotee of Pat Buchanan, who has a huge hatred for for Winston Churchill and wrote a book on blaming him and FDR for the war. Pat of course goes onto partake in Hitler apologism to make it case stick.