During the 40th episode of his Tucker on X show, Tucker Carlson repeated racist and antisemitic conspiracies about George Soros and population replacement. Carlson claimed that the Jewish philanthropist was undermining democracy and pushing for “mass immigration from the Third World.”

And he warned that, due to immigration and low Spanish birthrates, “Spaniards will be a small minority in their own country” one hundred years from now.

On Nov. 13, 2023, Carlson posted a photo of himself to X (formerly Twitter) that showed him standing amidst a crowd of people. Carlson simply wrote, “In Madrid.” Four days later he posted an interview with Santiago Abascal, the head of Spain’s far-right Vox party.

In the run-up to Spain’s July 2023 general election, the Vox party campaigned against LGBTQ rights and gender equality. A Vox manifesto pledged to abolish “all gender legislation,” including laws permitting abortion and dealing with gender-based violence.

And in the town of Naquera, the rainbow flag was banned from being displayed on government buildings after Vox won local elections. Vox even hung a banner in Madrid which showed feminist and LGBTQ symbols being thrown in the trash.

However, Vox underperformed in July’s election, suggesting that their extreme, right-wing agenda had turned off voters.

During his interview with Santiago Abascal, Carlson stated that one thing “Spain has in common with other Western countries that are becoming less democratic is the involvement of George Soros, who’s a major player in Spanish politics.”

A Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire and philanthropist, Soros has been the subject of many antisemitic conspiracies. Unsurprisingly he is also a frequent target of Tucker Carlson, who once claimed that Soros built a “program of destruction aimed at the West.”

“Why would George Soros, who is not Spanish, has no connection to Spain that I’m aware of, be involved to the degree that he is in Spanish politics?” Carlson asked Abascal.

Abascal told Carlson that Soros is “unloved in Hungary” and “not well-regarded in other countries around the world because he tries to exert his influence.” And he said that Soros was the “first person to meet with” Spanish President Pedro Sánchez when he was elected.

The story of an alleged secret meeting between Sánchez and Soros was the subject of a 2018 Breitbart article which listed the source for the claim as Ok Diario — an outlet that, according to EL PAÍS, traffics in “partisan, biased or hoax content.”

“One of the things Soros has pushed here, as in the rest of Europe, and in the rest of the West, is mass immigration from the Third World into your country. Does that have the support of the Spanish people? Does the average Spaniard want millions of North Africans living here?” Carlson asked.

“Absolutely not,” Abascal said. “The great majority of Spaniards, whomever they vote for, are against mass immigration. They want immediate deportations.”

And, as he has done in the past, Carlson fearmongered over demographic change.

Carlson said that a combination of Spain’s low birthrate and immigration from other countries will ensure that “In a hundred years, Spaniards will be a small minority in their own country. Small minority.” He asked if the “average person” in Spain was aware of this.

“I think so. I think it’s a matter of concern for average citizens.” Abascal replied.

He compared Spain to France, Sweden, and Germany where “Islamization and social change have been brutal.” And he complained that there is “no incentive” for what he termed a “demographic renaissance in Europe.”

“There is an incentive in Hungary,” he added. “Families in Hungary that have three children are exempted from paying income taxes for the rest of their lives. What do they do in France and Sweden? They cut a check per child. And who is having children? Often those who aren’t working. It’s perverse.”

Abascal said that a “demographic renewal” is needed in Europe because a “majority” of Europeans want to “preserve” their “identity.”

Carlson also attacked the “state of free speech in Spain,” comparing it to fascist rule under General Francisco Franco. “Franco was much criticized for censorship, but it seems in modern Spain you are not allowed to say certain things,” he claimed.

And he asked Abascal how they “got to a place where a Spanish citizen can’t say what he thinks.”

Abascal blamed this on “wokism” — a catch-all term for anything the right-wing loathes — and said that if someone “speak[s] out against extreme feminist legislation” they are deemed “sexist or transphobic.”

“If you want to speak freely about your history, you are immediately called a fascist,” he complained.

“If you believe in national unity and want to defend it from separatism, they call you a centralist and authoritarian, they try to cancel you and pass laws to convict you on the basis of your ideas and your beliefs. They turn right-wing thinking into hate, so that only the Left can be legitimate.”