{"id":385031,"date":"2025-11-17T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385031\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:54:14","slug":"tucker-carlson-bo-french-and-the-gops-short-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385031\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson, Bo French and the GOP\u2019s short memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it too much to hope that the GOP won\u2019t succumb to short memories that have become so typical of our politics today? The party that widened its tent in 2024 with a forceful economic message will lose its appeal and tear away at American society by tolerating antisemitism and bigotry from its politicians and thought leaders. <\/p>\n

Bo French recently announced that he wouldn\u2019t seek reelection<\/a> as Tarrant County GOP chair. But he didn\u2019t do it for the reasons we\u2019d hoped. It wasn\u2019t because his party finally had enough of the bigoted garbage he spews on the internet. Nope. He\u2019s running for statewide office<\/a> instead. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, French posted a poll to social media platform X asking his audience, \u201cwho is a bigger threat to America?\u201d The response options were: Jews or Muslims. Rightfully, the since-deleted post drew calls for his resignation from prominent GOP leaders<\/a> including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. John Cornyn. <\/p>\n

But all the hubbub fizzled out. French never faced any substantial consequences. Now he\u2019s running to become a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, the state\u2019s top oil and gas regulator. He said on social media that \u201cthis will be the best way that I can defend Texas, stop the Islamic invasion, and defeat the left.\u201d <\/p>\n

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In August, French launched a bigoted attack against state House Rep. Salman Bhojani<\/a>, a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan. On social media, he called on the feds \u201cto denaturalize and deport\u201d Bhojani. He accused the Muslim state representative of trying to \u201cfurther jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will GOP leaders remember their anger at French? The rebukes of him after his poll came years after French began posting hateful messages into the virtual void. But that wasn\u2019t enough to diminish his presence within the Texas GOP.<\/p>\n

The current environment of permissiveness has only emboldened people like French.<\/p>\n

Take Tucker Carlson\u2019s recent interview with <\/a>neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Once a fringe figure in the conservative movement, Fuentes has been getting more attention in recent years.<\/p>\n

During a friendly interview with Carlson, one of the most prominent faces of the modern Republican Party, Fuentes made statements about \u201corganized Jewry in America\u201d and a need to be \u201cpro-white\u201d on some level. <\/p>\n

Staffers at the high-profile Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, lashed out at their boss, Kevin Roberts, after he defended Carlson\u2019s interview, according to news reports. <\/p>\n

Republican leaders should take note and summon the same courage as those staffers. The hate promoted by people like Fuentes, Carlson and French merits unequivocal repudiation at every turn. We cannot forget or look away, and we shouldn\u2019t let those people carry the mantle of the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

In his interview with Carlson, Fuentes said something telling: \u201cThe conservative movement is going to have to move to me; I will not move towards them.\u201d <\/p>\n

The GOP is doomed if it does not stop that from happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it too much to hope that the GOP won\u2019t succumb to short memories that have become so…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6083,7371,7372,7375,358,5524,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-385031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-editorials","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-tarrant-county","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-politics","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115564672873615599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}