Princeton scholar Robert P. George’s resignation Monday from the Heritage Foundation has detonated a political firestorm across the conservative movement, with prominent thinkers calling his exit a final indictment of President Kevin Roberts’ failed leadership.
George’s departure — triggered by Roberts’ refusal to criticize Tucker Carlson following Carlson’s podcast interview with white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes — has become the boldest public rebuke yet of a think tank many conservatives now say is spiraling into moral collapse.
The reaction to George’s resignation among many leading conservatives was swift, blistering, and nearly unanimous: Roberts is the problem.
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