What’s next for Angry Cable Guy? It’s tricky finding a new home that’s angry enough for him.

Among Carlson’s most passionately pursued topics was the idea – contrary to all able evidence – that white people were being persecuted in the US.

Across his tenure at Fox News, Carlson pushed the concept of the great replacement theory – which states that a range of liberals, Democrats and Jewish people are working to replace white voters in western countries with people of color, in an effort to achieve political aims – in more than 400 of his shows, a New York Times analysis found.

Because that’s how it works, right? Either white people vote – or everyone else votes – it can’t be that they all vote.

One thing that is likely, however, is that Carlson “attacks Fox”, Carusone said.

“He wasn’t shy about attacking his colleagues and management when he was at a company – he’s certainly not going to be shy about attacking them now,” Carusone said.

The idea of an aggressive response is “tightly tied into his brand”, Carusone said “And he’s also just a venomous, spiteful guy, so the reflex will be to take a shot.”

Or he could just disappear into irrelevance.