By Ben Bartee  THE DAILY BELL

Wave after wave of cancellation campaigns has attempted to oust Carlson from his position as the most popular cable news host. The left has levied every accusation of an ism imaginable. He's been smeared alternately as a closet white supremacist, a transphobe and a Russian agent – the works.

Rule of thumb: if a public figure is accused of the above trifecta of bigotry, whether right or left, Glenn Greenwald or Carlson, they've struck a nerve with the corporate state.

Why throw the kitchen sink at this one figure?

Tucker gives a platform to dissident, truly marginalized voices (as opposed to "marginalized" voices in the social justice sense).

Critics often ask the leftist likes of Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore why they appear on Carlson's show. The answers they give are consistently twofold:

Carlson offers a chance to reach a broader audience outside of their insular ideological ecosystems

Carlson hosts the only corporate media show that will invite them on

The only scenario in which MSNBC or CNN, for instance, would even consider granting Greenwald airtime in 2022 would be to lambaste him as a Russian agent or Trump apologist. They know they couldn't win that fight, though, so they choose to ignore him.

The corporate state fears nothing more than unity between the populist factions of the left and right. That’s one reason it invests so heavily in waging the culture war – to erect artificial barriers that keep the rabble at each other’s throats instead of theirs.

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Outside of Carlson’s 8 pm hour, Fox News’ business model is to keep its geriatric viewers entertained enough not to change the channel. They fill the stale airtime with hot air and toothless rhetoric, just to fill the gaps between ads for hearing aids, erection pills, and life insurance.

The non-Carlson Fox News content is banal and non-threatening to the power structure.

In contrast to the audience for other shows on the network, Tucker’s audience is younger, more ideologically diverse, and – most importantly – significantly more subversive.

Carlson pulls more self-identified democratic viewers than his biggest competitor at MSNBC, Russiagate Rachel Maddow. Carlson’s reruns get more viewers than accused sexual predator Don Lemon.