A firestorm erupted last week within the U.S. conservative movement after Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes — a figure long associated with white nationalist ideology and antisemitic rhetoric — and Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, publicly defended Carlson’s decision to host him.
The fallout has laid bare fractures within the GOP and the broader conservative movement over antisemitism, Israel, and the boundaries of allowing extremist speech to go unanswered.
Roberts’ video statement posted to X declared, “Their attempt to cancel him will fail … Carlson is a close friend of Heritage — and always will be.”
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