This Week's Worst Influential American

Tough decision this week, given Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin's efforts to torpedo Biden's (and America's) one shot at reversing widening inequality and combatting climate change, but this week's winner isn't either of them. He's not even a politician. He's the most popular talking head on Fox News, with 3 million viewers and the most dangerous demagogue since Donald Trump. His name: Tucker Carlson.

He gets the prize because he recently played a 2015 clip of then-Vice President Joe Biden discussing America's long history of benefiting from immigration. Then Carlson looked straight at the camera and said the reason Biden was in favor of immigration was "to change the racial mix of the country."

Carlson continued: "That's the reason, to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the Third World." And then added: "It's horrifying. But there's a reason Biden said it. In political terms, this policy is called the great replacement, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries."

Carlson has spewed this "great replacement" excrement before, but it's particularly absurd now because the Biden administration is doing just the opposite -- to my horror. It just deported thousands of Haitian refugees desperate to escape Haiti's deathly chaos. (Oh, and the Obama administration set a record for deportations.)

A liberal "great replacement" conspiracy? Horse manure. If there's any conspiracy it involves right-wing hate-mongers like Carlson -- who are intent on sowing more anger and division in an America still reeling from four years of Trump.