Tucker Carlson doesn't see himself as a professional buffoon, which is all that matters to Tucker Carlson.

He behaves accordingly.

"Could a professional buffoon be the nation's singularly most-watched political commentator? Besides Joe Rogan? And, occasionally, other buffoons?" - Tucker Carlson's conscience

And he's actually got a point! He feeds the base what they want, one node downstream of Trump himself. As recent court filings show.

DeSantis probably won't win the GOP nomination, btw. Tiny Meatballs, Tiny D., Ron, will be skewered in the primaries by Trump, unless DeSantis stoops lowwwww, which seems surprisingly hard for DeSantiwhatever given Ron's scumbaggery on LGBTQ rights, censorship of e.g. school books, press criticisms, and bucking of many other policies that are generally popular among Florida voters. The disconnect between voting issues yielded via poll and actual voter choices has perhaps never been more pronounced than it is right now in Florida. I dunno. You'll probably have a hot take, I'm sure, which is A-OK.

Trump will probably be more easily defeated by a Biden re-run than Ronnie, so, hey, what're you gonna do? (rhetorical)

All that said, you used to think Trump would've lost much more of his support by now, right? What do you think now? (not rhetorical)