The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro torched Tucker Carlson on Monday over his interview with far-right firebrand Nick Fuentes last week, accusing Carlson of polishing abhorrent views that should fall outside the right's tent.

Why it matters: Shapiro's broadside escalates the war within MAGA over tolerating — and defending — racism, sexism and antisemitism. Both men have online followings that are bigger than many old-school media figures.

Shapiro used his entire show Monday to lambast Carlson as an "intellectual coward" and "dishonest interlocutor." • Shapiro rattled off a list of past comments by Fuentes, including Holocaust denialism, saying women shouldn't be involved in politics, and claiming it's understandable for white people to be racist.

Carlson "acts as an ideological launderer," S

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