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How Hard Is It to Reject Nick Fuentes? – HotAir

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An argument is raging over whether Tucker Carlson’s hosting a long conversation with Nick Fuentes, a rabid antisemite who has mused about killing or deporting all the Jews. Has Tucker gone too far? Is it “cancel culture” to work hard to keep a neo-Nazi out of the conservative movement, or are there “no enemies to the right?”





The claim that some are making is the same old “You should be able to criticize Israel without being called an antisemite,” which is, in itself, true. I love the United States, but often despair at what our leaders do and are doing to it.  NSFW clips ahead. 

But Fuentes is quite clear: he hates Jews, and in fact, he hates MAGA. He has more in common with Islamist terrorists than with Constitutional conservatives, and argues that conservatives like Charlie Kirk and even Donald Trump betray America.

Fuentes and his supporters have been spreading the vile claim that Charlie Kirk converted to the Groyper position right before he died, because Fuentes is trying to fill the Charlie Kirk void in the conservative movement. In reality, Kirk wanted nothing to do with the Groypers and saw them as an existential danger to the conservative movement. 





Fuentes is vile. He sells hate, and the critique of Tucker Carlson is not so much that he interviewed Fuentes as that he almost gave him a tongue bath, just as he did a historian who argued that we fought on the wrong side of World War II, or when he argued that Russia in some ways was superior to America. 

Nick announced that he would campaign against Donald Trump because he supported Israel, and now he is threatening J.D. Vance if he supports Israel in 2028. 

It’s in this context that people are now arguing about Heritage Foundation President coming out in support of Tucker embracing Nick Fuentes. 





To me, the right thing to do is clear: unambiguously denounce Fuentes, just as conservatives should be offended to embrace the cam-girl pimps, the Tate brothers. 

Roberts did not address those remarks or any of Fuentes’s other head-turning statements, including “I love Hitler,” “Hitler had aura,” and “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated.” Rather, he condemned Carlson’s critics.

“We will always defend our friends against the slanders of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda,” Roberts said, though he did not identify whose agenda Carlson’s critics are allegedly serving.

Carlson, he said, “remains—and, as I have said before, always will be—a close friend of the Heritage Foundation. The venomous coalition attacking him or sowing division, their attempt to cancel him will fail.”

On Carlson’s podcast, Fuentes decried the influence of “organized Jewry” and described himself as a “fan” of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who reportedly canceled a person or two. Carlson pledged to “circle back to that” but never did.

Roberts also accused Carlson’s critics of unduly focusing on the Right rather than uniting against the Left.

Sitting with Fuentes, Carlson took a different tack, arguing that Christian Zionists like Trump official Mike Huckabee and Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) have a “brain virus” and accusing them of “Christian heresy.”

Fuentes thanked Roberts for his “courage in … defending Tucker against the Israel First Woke Right.”

How can a conservative embrace Nick Fuentes as, in a way, a member of the right? Carlson’s sin was not interviewing Fuentes but rather letting him spew things about the virtues of Stalin with nary a challenge. People like Fuentes should be interviewed and forced to explain themselves; they should not be treated as if their ideas are respectable. 





Carlson was, instead, tougher on Ted Cruz than Fuentes. 

Rejecting somebody and their ideas is not “canceling” them. It is clarifying where one stands, and no conservative should stand with Nick Fuentes. He is vile. We should be clear that we understand that he is vile. It is not “based” to prefer Hunter Biden to Donald Trump, Jr.

And Hitler was cool. 

It really shouldn’t be difficult to come out foursquare against Nick Fuentes, and it shouldn’t be difficult to criticize Tucker Carlson for not really challenging him on his loooonnnngggg history of making insane arguments and normalizing racism, antisemitism, and violence against women. 

Some would argue that Fuentes is joking, and if so, it sure doesn’t come across that way, even when he says he is joking. His rants are not funny; they are hateful. His “jokes” are as funny as those Halloween costumes of liberals mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination. 





Rejecting Nick Fuentes should be the easiest thing in the world. We have no problem criticizing Zohran Mamdani, so why is it suddenly “cancellation” to criticize Fuentes or anybody giving him a tongue bath in front of an audience of millions?

Fuentes is poison. Carlson treated him like a more respectable figure than Ted Cruz. 

I was skeptical at first about the claim that a woke, identitarian right was a significant threat to the right. 

I am no longer. 

P.S. Some thoughts from other conservatives on Tucker and Fuentes:





First, it is dishonest. Roberts opens by declaring that “Christians can critique the state of Israel without being anti-Semitic” — as if the issue were free speech or foreign policy. It is not. Tucker Carlson is under fire for platforming Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who preaches white Christian nationalism. The question is not whether one may criticize Israel. It is whether open antisemitism and racism are acceptable in conservative politics. By reframing the issue as a debate about Israel, Roberts erases the real problem — and covers for it.

Second, it is itself antisemitic.

Roberts defends Carlson “against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda” — a thinly veiled reference to Israel and its supporters. In other words, anyone who objects to platforming a Holocaust denier is accused of being an agent of a foreign power. I am a Catholic American who voted for Trump three times. If I believe that Holocaust denial and white nationalism have no place in conservative politics, am I now a pawn of Israel?

This is not “anti-globalism.” It is the oldest antisemitic script in the book — the claim that Jews secretly control nations, manipulate governments, and use non-Jews as their instruments. Roberts repeats that lie in modern populist form, dressing it up as patriotism.

Third, the statement is stupid.

Roberts says that “the venomous coalition attacking [Tucker the patriot] are sowing division,” and that “the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.” But Tucker Carlson has spent months directing his venom not at the woke left that burned our cities, nor at China, which has infiltrated every institution that guards our sovereignty — but at Jews and at Israel.

This obsession has even driven him to attack Mike Huckabee and evangelical Christians for supporting Israel. How is that not sowing division? Roberts calls Tucker a patriot, yet defends a man who divides Americans along lines of faith and race. That isn’t strategy. It’s stupidity — moral, political, and historical.

Dishonest, bigoted and stupid. What we are debating is not loyalty to Israel. It’s loyalty to reality. A movement that can’t recognize and reject blatant antisemitism has no moral core and no future.





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