Tucker Carlson Endorses "Great Replacement" White Nationalist Theory on Fox News Prime Time

Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News's highest-rated prime-time program, explicitly endorses on September 22, 2021 the core claim of the "Great Replacement" theory — a white nationalist conspiracy that holds that Democratic politicians are deliberately replacing white American voters with nonwhite immigrants to gain electoral power. Carlson states: "I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement,' if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate... But they become hysterical because it's true." The "Great Replacement" theory was cited as motivation by the El Paso gunman (2019), the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter (2018), and the Buffalo supermarket shooter (2022). A New York Times analysis of 950 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight finds that the show referenced the replacement theory more than 400 times in approximately four years. Carlson is fired by Fox News in April 2023. ADL calls Carlson's repeated advocacy "nothing less than an endorsement of white supremacist ideology."