i swear, tucker carlson is turning into glenn beck ... cheetos, anyone?
I decided to go right to the source to see what is the deal with Mr Cooper. Here is a Substack article titled “Antisemitism, pt. 1”
In a recent debate over the Israeli assault on Gaza, an interesting exchange took place between comedian and political commentator Dave Smith, and conservative radio host Dennis Prager. Prager is a prototype of a certain kind of conservative Jewish Zionist: a good-natured, sober-minded man who is simply a lunatic on the Israel-Palestine question.
well….that escalated quickly. Let’s looks further - a good way to assess this paragraph is to replace Jewish people with 2nd Amendment supporters:
One of the more puzzling aspects of the paranoid complex is that the sufferer will typically fight tooth-and-nail against any attempt to dissuade them from a worldview that psychologically terrorizes them. It is so common for hospitalized paranoiacs to collapse into depression and disillusionment after successful treatment that doctors plan for it. The patient finds it more tolerable to imagine himself as the object of everyone’s hostility, than to give up his sense of imagined centrality - or, chosenness, if you prefer. “They hate me because I am special. I am special because they hate me.” To test this in the wild, simply try to persuade someone like Winona Ryder that she doesn’t have to worry, that America is safe and will remain safe for Jews, that antisemitism, while it persists in pockets, has no purchase in our society or institutions. Like the paranoid patient, she will fight to defend the idea that there is an overwhelming conspiracy against her, and the very fact that you doubt it suggests that you might secretly be one of them.