One day last year, on the truck ride home from a quail hunting excursion, Tucker Carlson had a revelatory experience of radical empathy. “We were talking about someone I despise,” the former Fox News host recounted on Wednesday night to Megyn Kelly, a friend who had travelled a parallel career arc in leaving the network under acrimonious circumstances. Suddenly, Carlson said, “I could understand why this person was doing these horrible things.”

After he went to sleep that night, Carlson woke up startled at 2:30 a.m. “I go into the bathroom,” he said, “I flip on the light, and I have claw marks on both sides, on right and left side, on my ribs.” The marks didn’t match his own fingers. He began reading the Bible and, upon waking again, concluded after consultation with his wife and one

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