Joe Scarborough went off on all the offensive ideas Tucker Carlson made popular.
"There's a straight line, George Conway, if you look. There's a straight line in the support for autocrats, people with autocratic urges who actually despise Western democracy," Scarborough said.
"Despise freedom. Despise the rule of law. Despise a free press, and they're always attacking it. It's Donald Trump in the United States, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and Vladimir Putin in Russia, those three. I guess that's sort of the line that goes straight across, the throughline.
"And Tucker Carlson, in the opinion of me and a lot of people who actually have long been defenders of Western democracy, was on the wrong side of every one of those -- the debate surrounding those leaders. He seemed to embrace the autocrats and constantly mock the institutions that uphold Western democracy," Scarborough said.
"That's absolutely right. Remember, Tucker's the guy who went to Budapest to hang out with Orban. He's always essentially been supportive of Putin's position in the Ukraine war, which is the United States has no business defending democracy there. It's really a business of Russia's, and Ukraine is really part of Russia, or at least Crimea is," Conway said.
"That is absolutely -- and that's the appeal of -- that's his appeal of him to the maga base. They want to make things simpler for themselves. They don't want to think for themselves. Democracy is complicated, democracy is messy, democracy is diversity. We don't like that, these people who watch Fox News. Tucker appeals to that. Not just the authoritarian streak, but also, you know, the Great Replacement Theory. He wants to gin up the right with racism."
