The Heritage Foundation is facing a staff rebellion over its president, Kevin Roberts, expressing support of Tucker Carlson following his softball interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
After Carlson posted his interview online on Monday, many conservatives urged the foundation to distance itself from the conservative commentator due to Fuentes’s racist and antisemitic views. Fuentes is the founder of the Groypers, a group of internet trolls that praises Hitler as well as white and Christian nationalism.
Instead, Roberts released a video on X Thursday in support of Carlson and Fuentes, calling the former “a close friend of the Heritage Foundation” and saying that “canceling” Fuentes is not the solution, even though he personally abhors what he says. In response, Heritage staff members—including Heritage research fellow Preston Brashers and Richard Stern, the director of Heritage’s economic policy institute and federal budget center—have started criticizing Roberts on social media.
At least a handful of Heritage staffers, including Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and John Peluso, also retweeted Brashers’s post. Other conservatives, including Senator Ted Cruz and influencer Bethany Mandel, have also criticized Roberts. The backlash led to Roberts making a follow-up post on Friday condemning Fuentes’s views but reiterating his view “that the best way to fight antisemitic ideas was to challenge them head on.”
Neither of them are going to survive the night of the long knives. Tucker is anti Zionist and has a tiny thread of integrity even if most of his views are trash. Fuentes is old school anti semitic nazi and the entire administration and most of our elected officials on both sides are rabidly Zionist. The Trump administrations policies are full colonialist genocidal Nazi with a hatred for brown indigenous people, a love for mass surveillance, plans for a homegrown genocide and Trump and Netanyahu are basically Hitler and Mussolini at this point. I hope things turn around but if they don’t these two need to get in lockstep with the turd Reich or they’re gone. I do enjoy them fighting amongst themselves though.
They are all opportunists, so all bets are off at this point. There is no loyalty when your entire philosophy is built on heirarchies and looking out for yourself so that you can take the throne. Once you’re in the throne it’s all about doing whatever is necessary to keep your position of power.
Fascist bureaucrats are realizing they have outgrown their usefulness and may get thrown under the bus.