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For years he’s been saying things things that white supremacists love to hear: White people are being replaced; legal and illegal immigrants are ruining the US; George Soros hates the west and wants society to collapse (anti-semites love that one); immigrants are dirty, uncivilized; a race war is imminent; anything done to acknowledge racism is racist; BLM protests were violent riots; mass-shooters with racist manifestos aren’t white supremacists; etc.
There are several instances of him associating with and boosting white supremacists online, and even his show’s long-time top writer was pressured to quit after explicitly racist online posts came to light.
This page does a fairly good job of cataloging the sorts of rhetoric he’s used that’re amicable to white supremacists.
So your case that Tucker Carlson is a shire supremacist can be summarized as:
That’s a very weak case. Do you realize that?
In one case he was associated with someone who allegedly posted racist stuff online (I haven’t tracked that claim back to see if it’s true), and that person got fired from Carlson’s staff when those allegations came to light. In the other case the association is a one-way association, where some “alt-right” people have posted memes that say you can’t cuck the tuck, hence he’s a white supremacist.
As a level of evidence this is weak as fuck. You should be ashamed to stand behind this as a case, and if you’re actually convinced based off this that he’s a white supremacist you’re allowing yourself to be someone else’s bulldog. You’re being used to spread misinformation.
My case chiefly rests on his years of white supremacist rhetoric — which you didn’t address. I mentioned those other two bits at the end of my comment. On their own, I agree, they are slightly concerning but not damning; but in the context of his show’s content and rhetoric, they are.