I wasn’t sure I should write tonight, I’m so furious at The Heritage Foundation and its President, Kevin Roberts. I’m more in a venting than writing mood. You can see some of my venting on X at the bottom of this post.
I haven’t had a lot of dealings with The Heritage Foundation. They are mainstream establishment “conservative” and massive. Until today I had nothing against them, generally would consider myself a supporter, and valued much of the research and scholarship it produced. The people I have interacted with there have seemed genuine and principled.
It’s why the actions of Heritage President Kevin Roberts disgust me so much.
As you know, I long ago soured on Tucker Carlson, who has become a demonic force for the normalization of Jew hatred in the GOP by washing disreputable figures through the laundry of Tucker softball interviews. I wrote about this in my post on August 28, 2025, What Happened To Tucker?
Something changed with him. I don’t know what changed with him, but what he’s doing now is trying to set Christians against Jews. It’s very clear: he brings in not just these crank theories, Nazi revisionist historical theories, but he also brings on people who blame Jews for the purge of Christians in the Muslim world. It’s completely insane. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where the Christian population is increasing. In all the countries around it they’ve been depopulated of Christians just like they’ve been depopulated of Jews.So what’s motivating Tucker? I don’t know. All I know is he’s playing a very dangerous game. He’s doing it deliberately. He knows exactly what he’s doing.Maybe he’s playing to the bigger audience. There are close to 2 billion Muslims in the world; there are 20 million Jews, and bashing Jews, blaming Jews for everything, [and] coming to the defense of the Mullahs in Iran like he did, interviewing the leader of Qatar. All those sort of things play to a much bigger audience.So I don’t know what’s motivating him, but I don’t like what he’s doing. I’ve spoken out on X about it many times.And I think it’s really a problem for the Republican Party because he, more than any other person, has normalized this Jew hatred, has normalized the attempt to turn Christians against Jews, [and] has normalized the attempt to bring this stuff into the MAGA movement.I think it’s time for the Trump administration to disavow him and for JD Vance, who reportedly is friends with him, to disavow him as well, or at least to disavow what he’s doing.And I think that would be important because he’s trying to destroy the Trump administration. Why he’s doing it? I don’t know, but it’s pretty clear what he’s doing.
Of course, the Trump administration has not disavowed Tucker, if anything JD Vance has moved closer to Tucker’s positions, or at least let slip how he really feels.
But it was Tucker’s softball, glowing, slobbering interview the vile open-Jew hater and lead “Groyper” Nick Fuentes that set up a firestorm of criticism that normalizing Groypers and neo-Nazis in the form of Fuentes was just a step too far.
A rumor spread that The Heritage Foundation might finally be distancing itself from Tucker after the Fuentes tongue-bathing interview.
In response, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted a video affirming the Heritage stood with Tucker and defended Tucker’s promotion of Fuentes – the real villain according to Roberts, were the people criticizing Tucker. (Transcript here)
What a disgraceful statement. Tucker is allowed to spew his crap, and we are allowed to criticize him for it.
We are not a “venomous coalition … sowing division,” we’re responding to two years of non-stop demonization by Tucker. No Kevin, we are not “bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda,” we are Americans who believe that the Jew hatred and venom normalized by Tucker both is abhorrent in its own right and also is anti-American and anti-MAGA.
Kevin Roberts is a disgrace.
He has soiled The Heritage Foundation. He has help Tucker and Fuentes advance their goal of destroying the MAGA movement — which was a large multi-religious, multi-racial achievement rare for Republicans.
Man this is big. Heritage Foundation has completely dropped any talk of Israel being an ally, shared values or anything like that. It’s just like any other country you only work with if it’s in America’s interests. He blames “pressure from the globalist class” for demanding support for Israel.Refuses to denounce Tucker for having Fuentes on.Calls those who attack him “slanderers” who are serving someone else’s agenda. Says those who want to cancel Tucker are “sowing division.” I guess when Tucker sat next to Fuentes and said he hated Christian Zionists more than anyone else in the world, there was nothing divisive about that!I told you the Groypers were winning. Congratulations to Nick Fuentes, the most effective conservative activist of a generation.Jewish friends, you need to step back and rethink this entire conservative movement thing. I told you that this would happen if you didn’t take the human capital problem seriously.
This connects to some thoughts I’ve been having about “gatekeeping” – and how it’s only treated as going one way.Usually it’s pro-Israel Republicans being accused of gatekeeping. But when Tucker brings on the country’s most prominent antisemite and then talks about how much he despises Christian Zionists – what is he doing if not gatekeeping? He’s just placing the gate in a different place. Tucker’s project isn’t enhancing broader conservative unity; he’s trying to push people like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee out of the conservative coalition.I talked yesterday about how Charlie was a loyal friend. Charlie was also a bridge-builder; he made a point of never using his platform to insult other conservatives. I’ve tried to follow that advice, and limit the extent I engage in conservative infighting, because I think it’s better if *everyone* trains their fire on the civilization-destroying left. I think many pro-Israel Republicans, perhaps rightly disturbed by recent events, have been too aggressive on the “gatekeeping” front, and Charlie was flagging that in some of his text messages before his assassination. But the obligation to support conservative unity falls on everyone in the tent, and the Israel skeptics shouldn’t get a pass for extremely divisive behavior either.Tucker gets a lot of grace for doing YEARS of good work on behalf of the America First movement. I don’t want him gate kept. I would like him to stop being an obnoxious prick to large portions of the Republican Party, to be more loyal to the many friends who have given him so much grace, and to train his energies where they belong – on the barbaric, civilization-destroying left. That would be a much better use of his time than attempting to “gatekeep” Christian Zionists – a huge chunk of the party – out of the conservative movement.
This whole video is a giant strawman.Nobody ever made the argument that we need to reflexively support Israel even if it goes against our own interests. I certainly don’t believe that.That’s not why we don’t like Tucker Carlson.We don’t like him because he’s pushing libelous lies against Israel, he’s legitimizing Hitler apologia, is promoting Holocaust denial, advocated for Iran to get nuclear weapons, constantly attacks Christian Zionists, and is just generally a dishonest hack.Stop responding to arguments nobody ever made.
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