"On the day before Halloween, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, released a horror film of his own. Roberts stared into the camera, American flag on his lapel, and cast in his lot with Tucker Carlson, whom he called "a close friend" of the storied think tank. Hours earlier, Carlson had interviewed Nick Fuentes, king of the white nationalist groyper army, without pressing him on his most radical statements about the merits of Adolf Hitler and killing "perfidious Jews."
"Roberts disavows Fuentes in his video, though with a caveat: Although he disagrees with and sometimes abhors groyper rhetoric, "canceling" Fuentes "is not the answer either," and he condemns "a globalist class" for threatening Carlson over a commitment to debate. Fuentes later thanked Roberts for releasing the video. Now a simmering civil war within Heritage - and the conservative movement itself - has spilled out into public view."
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, publicly defended Tucker Carlson after Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Roberts disavows Fuentes but warned against "canceling" him and blamed a "globalist class" for pressuring Carlson. Fuentes thanked Roberts. The episode triggered a visible schism within Heritage and the conservative movement between Jewish conservatives and Christian Zionists who accuse Roberts of coddling an antisemite, and a faction advocating alignment with the far right. Prominent resignations and a contentious town hall followed, while groyper supporters celebrate, signaling broader succession, ideology, and strategy battles on the right.
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