Tucker Carlson has lost his job – but the far right has won the battle for the mainstream | Owen Jones

The sacked Fox News host was one figurehead of a misinformation industry that has reshaped rightwing politics across the world

It is difficult to begrudge anyone for celebrating the downfall of far-right provocateur Tucker Carlson, ignominiously ejected from Fox News. Slack-jawed, spitting rage, his tirades were calculated at stirring the resentment of angry white America: from declaring that immigrants made the US dirtier and poorer to embracing the great replacement theory", which spreads the noxious lie that the authorities were deliberately undermining democracy" by replacing US-born Americans with immigrants.

Fox staff were reportedly jubilant at his departure. Perhaps this quote from a Fox reporter, in which they celebrate seeing the back of the network's premier conspiracy theorist, will give you pause: It's a great day for America, and for the real journalists who work hard every day to deliver the news at Fox."

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist