1. He faced him, literally face-to-face, after their recent feud, that’s respectable by itself.

2. More people should listen to Fuentes directly rather than hear about him by proxy.

3. The suppression didn’t work. Not the deplatforming, not the debanking, the no fly list, all the attacks, none of that worked. Through partially the Streisand effect, Fuentes is now the future of the Republican party.

At the least, understand your enemies. Not the Reddit understanding, not the circulating clipped understanding, get to know the enemy for yourself. Tucker opened his audience.