By now everybody knows that Tucker blew up the internet with his shocking interview of podcaster Darryl Cooper. Cooper did two Bad Things: he suggested that Winston Churchill ignored numerous peace offers from Hitler, and that the Holocaust didn’t start right away in WWII. German commanders in Operation Barbarossa were sending messages back home asking what to do with the millions of people captured in the conquered territories.
Darryl Cooper crossed two lines: you are not allowed to doubt that Churchill was a Hero. And you are not allowed to doubt that the Nazis planned the genocide of the Jews all along.
Because I am a Very Bad Person, I really have a problem with this kind of Narrative Fascism.
Conservative websites were in full cry on the heresy of doubting that Churchill saved Britain from the Nazis: here and here. And all over the place at Powerline.
Bari Weiss’s Free Press ran several pieces, mostly attacking the Holocaust Denial, including one by Bari herself: “...illiberal right…” Sohrab Ahmari: “Odious views…” Victor Davis Hanson: “Germany… started the war”, Niall Ferguson: “The Return of anti-History.”
Now, the question is: how to soar above these ankle-biters........