The latest episode of Tucker Carlsons show on Fox Nation, titled Hungary vs. Soros: The Fight for Civilization, is maybe the most straightforwardly white nationalist piece of television hes ever produced an alarming accomplishment considering his recent oeuvre .

The 27-minute documentary opens with a sweeping aerial view of the Danube River in Budapest, then cuts to two white Hungarian parents playing with their child in a park, the sound of laughter layered over the angelic voices of a church choir. The music suddenly turns loud and ominous as the viewer is presented footage of desperate, bloodied migrants at the Hungarian border.

The camera then slowly zooms in on a black-and-white photo of an old man sitting at a desk: George Soros.

The influence of George Soros here in Europe is more powerful than in the United States, Hungarys authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, tells Carlson in a sit-down interview. This is his main hunting area.

Soros, a Jewish Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist who survived the Holocaust, has been the subject of vile anti-Semitic propaganda for over a decade. The far right and Orban, in particular would have you believe Soros is an omnipotent puppet master, using his liberal nonprofit, the Open Society Foundations, to hasten the end of the Christian West via open borders and nonwhite immigration. Its a conspiracy theory that hews closely to classic anti-Semitic tropes about malevolent Jewish influence in politics and media.

Soros, Carlson says, is waging a kind of war political, social and demographic war on the West. In a recent interview about the episode, Carlson added that Soros aim is to make society more dangerous, dirtier, less democratic, more disorganized, more at war with themselves, less cohesive in other words, its a program of destruction aimed at the West.

Demographic war.

Dirtier.

You could be forgiven for mistaking Carlsons words for those written in the manifestos or social media screeds of white supremacist mass shooters. Robert Bowers, who in 2018 massacred 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, routinely posted similar conspiracy theories about Soros and Jews.

Carlsons demonization of Soros is in stark contrast to his slobbering admiration of Orban, whose cruel and draconian anti-immigration policies have harmed asylum-seekers and frightened human rights observers across the globe. At one point in the episode, Carlson flies in a helicopter, a smile crawling across his face as he admires the sprawling, electrified, and razor-wired fence Orban erected below on Hungarys southern border.

Pretty great, he says.

This isnt Carlsons first flirtation with Orbans Hungary he filmed his prime-time Fox News show in the country over the summer. Nor is it the first time he and other Fox News personalities have pushed anti-Soros messaging on air. But Carlsons latest episode for Fox Nation, the networks digital streaming service, marks one of the most significant and sinister invocations of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory by an American news outlet.

To better understand the implications of Carlson, one of the most powerful figures in American politics, targeting Soros in this way, HuffPost talked with Emily Tamkin, a senior editor at The New Statesman who authored the book The Influence of Soros and the forthcoming book Bad Jews.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.