Exclusive: More MAGA than MAGA: How the Daily Caller turned on MAGA and Trump
Semafor · Max Tani ·
The site Tucker Carlson co-founded is at the vanguard of a Republican civil war that he helped unleash.
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When Tucker Carlson co-founded the Daily Caller in 2010, it was to be the Republican Party’s answer to The New York Times.
A few identity crises later, the publication has followed Carlson into a hard turn against Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and against Israel — choices that have injected into the publication the digital energy of the new online right, and cost it the support of some of its backers.