Heritage Foundation Soils Itself, Embraces Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes
Heritage President Kevin Roberts is a disgrace. He has helped Tucker and Fuentes advance their goal of destroying the MAGA movement — which was a large multi-religious, multi-racial achievement rare for Republicans.
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.
Insane anti-Israel question, full of propaganda, was posed to JD Vance — and responded by adding his own fuel to the fire. Absolute dumpster fire.
But now I understand why he’s such good friends with Tucker Carlson and why Tucker’s son works for JD. pic.twitter.com/cqt7K8oCvH
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 30, 2025
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.
For those on the Right turned off by the moralistic pearl-clutching over Fuentes and Tucker, I’ll put it this way instead: Fuentes and Tucker are destroying the Right and greatly hurting our ability to defeat the Left. pic.twitter.com/vsvl9PoHVc
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) October 30, 2025
Tucker Carlson tells Nick Fuentes he despises Christian Zionists more than anyone on earth, calling Christian Zionism a dangerous heresy within Christianity.
He names Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, John Bolton, Karl Rove, and George W. Bush as examples.
Carlson says Christian Zionism… pic.twitter.com/741M5Tuvbj
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 28, 2025
.@TuckerCarlson asks Fuentes to state what he believes. He describes his political worldview as opposition to “organized Jewry in America.” Carlson nods along and accepts the premise that Jews put their own and Israel’s interests ahead of America. This is the foundation of Nazism https://t.co/AbFJWNdL7p
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2025
I watched the Fuentes interview
It was benign, which is the op
Take an extremist, 10x his platform, but with a new moderate version of himself
Now his credibility extends "I watched that Fuentes guy, he's not that bad"
Then he's normalized
The same has happened w/ Mamdani https://t.co/xuOMY1JVZc
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) October 28, 2025
This right here is the key. Tucker was playing press secretary for Nick Fuentes, with the goal of making his avowed anti-Semitism, and thereby Tucker’s own sly and covert anti-Semitism, more respectable in MAGA. https://t.co/BKpNP9WVEM
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 29, 2025
A rumor spread that The Heritage Foundation might finally be distancing itself from Tucker after the Fuentes tongue-bathing interview.
🚨🚨🚨 The Heritage Foundation has scrubbed references to @TuckerCarlson from their @TCNetwork sponsorship donation page at https://t.co/43w2RJEGzp.
Compare current screenshots to the ones I posted this morning: https://t.co/q3oSTK7B2G pic.twitter.com/iA6JVT5BWK
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) October 29, 2025
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)
There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours.
I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: pic.twitter.com/F8bcxBIqKI
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) October 30, 2025
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.
Here are some of MY REACTIONS:
You’re a disgraceful person. https://t.co/8P5GBTPeJA
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
Never thought I'd see the day @Heritage went Groyper. https://t.co/8P5GBTPeJA
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
If 2028 is a battle between the Democrat Socialists and Groyper-Tucker- @Heritage Republicans, say hello to “true socialism” being tried. https://t.co/bcXm3V8uO1
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
. @TheDemocrats must be laughing their asses off at their good fortune, right when they were written off @Heritage @KevinRobertsTX throw them a life line by fracturing @GOP in a way that will not heal soon. https://t.co/8P5GBTPeJA
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
. @KevinRobertsTX is forcing a choice – accept the Groypers and @TuckerCarlson or leave @Heritage and @GOP. That's an easy choice. Good luck winning a national general election with this platform @JDVance. I hope we have a real primary not an anointment. https://t.co/8P5GBTPeJA
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
Right now @Heritage development staff are probably hitting the phones reassuring big donors, the standard response shout be "f-off Groypers" https://t.co/8P5GBTPeJA
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 30, 2025
OTHER REACTIONS:
"Christians can critique the state of Israel without being antisemitic"
is an insulting response to:
Tucker Carlson gushing over a Hitler admirer and assuring the neo-Nazi of how much he, too, despises Israel and the Christians who support it. https://t.co/CXKodc3BXE
— Elliot Kaufman (@ElliotKaufman6) October 30, 2025
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… https://t.co/Rvd3HiISPC
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) October 30, 2025
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… https://t.co/r2WsWVpeY4
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 30, 2025
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… https://t.co/4szy89smBG
— Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 (@HanShawnity) October 30, 2025
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.
What a ludicrous defense of a shameful stance. When Tucker and I were Bradley Fellows together at @Heritage, it was a reputable organization. Now, to recover its reputation, @heritage needs to distance itself from nasty bigots and the cynical provocateurs who enable them. That… https://t.co/uX5oFLBOSj
— John Hood (@JohnHoodNC) October 30, 2025
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Yes, disgraceful. Even if a small percent, there are too many Christians that are attracted to these anti-Jewish ideas, and they are easy prey for the likes of Carlson, who is less curious than he lets on. Vance should be careful. Unlike Trump, he is relatively untested. Rubio is not chopped liver, either, and he would likely take a different path. But if Republicans go the way of Carlson, and forget the Judeo part of Christianity, are they true to themselves and their God?
Anti-semitism emanating from Christian quarters always struck me as profoundly stupid and hypocritical. It evinces a total ignorance of, and, profound disrespect for, Christianity’s obvious and undeniable origins in Judaism, and, Christ’s birth as a Jew. It’s a profoundly wicked manifestation of theological and historical stupidity.
But historically it was always the position of Christianity. Until the 19th century it was hard to find Christians who weren’t antisemitic. The Catholic Church was officially antisemitic until Vatican II, following St Augustine’s teachings on the subject.
And almost all Christians embraced Replacement Theology, believing that God abandoned His covenant with the Jews and transferred it to Christians, who are the “new Jews”, so that all references to Jews in the Bible now apply instead to Christians. This was official doctrine to almost all Christians, until quite recently by historical standards.
The phenomenon of Christian philosemitism, which nowadays is so prevalent especially among American Evangelicals, is historically an anomaly. A very good anomaly, but it is one. And not all Christians ever embraced it. Jimmy Carter and his family are an example of old-line Evangelicals who never accepted it. And most Middle-Eastern Christians, both Orthodox and Catholic, have rejected it.
So it’s sadly not surprising that the old attitudes we thought had been left behind are still around, and may yet make a comeback, God forbid.
All of the Puritan settlers, who actually pondered if they should or should not adopt Hebrew and abandon English, and they created a tradition that extended to the founding fathers who are mostly people who nobody mentions like Benjamin Rush and all are in that same philosemitic evangelical tradition.
We are discussing 17th century to today how exactly can that be an anomaly?
Did the Puritans reject Replacement Theology? If they didn’t, it would make sense that since they thought of themselves as the “new Jews” they would consider speaking the language of the Bible.
The US founders, or at least the clique around Washington, were best described as Unitarians, though only Adams was officially one. The rest of that clique, except Mason, held unitarian beliefs while attending orthodox Christian churches. So it’s not surprising that they were not antisemites, though not to my knowledge philosemites.
Millhouse, your post is interesting. I am a Christian and am not at all anti-semitic. Most of my Christian friends do not embrace Replacement Theology, rather, the “Left Behind” series of books and movies describes the popular pre-millennial eschatology that most of my Christian friends adhere to. My opinion of eschatology aligns with what is called Replacement Theology (or Fulfillment Theology), not b/c of any opinion against Israel, but rather my understanding of Revelation, Daniel, and other passages concerning end times. It may be that the roots of Replacement Theology grew from anti-semitism, I don’t know, but the Christians that I know that also embrace it are also not at all anti-semitic. I hope it is not a common opinion that Replacement Theology = anti-semitism. Since I believe that Jesus is Messiah, I wish every Jew and non-Jew would follow His teaching.
I enjoy discussions of these topics and wish we could talk.
Blessings, IndianaGuy
Totally agree, plus, there are there are sayings stating that Christians must support Judaism. I
can’t recall now, but for Christians don’t support Judaism, it is a real problem for them. Sorry I can’t do better.
Christians must support Jews, not Judaism. From Christianity’s point of view, Judaism is false, just as from Judaism’s point of view, Christianity is false. No religion can expect you to support what it asserts is a falsehood.
The “judeo part of Christianity?” Dude, that is a completely ridiculous theological statement. Christians worship Christ – an integral and inseparable part of the Triune nature of God. The jews reject Christ. Therefore Jews and Christians do not worship the same God in the manner necessary for salvation.
Yeah, Christians rely on the Hebrew Bible heavily. There would be no Christianity without Judaism. Yes, Christians worship a different God, Wish they could accept that Jews are the original believers and need no lectures on salvation or other matters of their faith.
Not “are” but “were.” Huge distinction.
Are and were. Would have used both if known you would quibble.
If one is a Christian, and therefore believes that Jesus is God, and that he is the only path to salvation, then it stands to reason that we Jews do need lectures on salvation, or we won’t be saves. And if one is a modern, philosemitic Christian, then one doesn’t want us Jews to be damned through our ignorance or stubbornness, so it becomes ones Christian duty to persuade us of the truth as one sees it.
As I often say, if a Christian doesn’t want to convert me then he is my enemy, because he is happy to have me burn forever (as he believes will happen).
No explanation is needed to justify their intrusiveness. Of course they NEED to lecture Jews. More importantly, Jews do not need to be lectured by others about God, however, and should not be hesitant to say so.
Maybe Tucker wrote that speech for Roberts. Kind of low key antisemite talking points that make him sound moderate. “Gee I’m just asking questions”, “intellectual honesty”.
Tucker is dangerous because he knows how to manipulate, he knows how to put on a show. I think he is salivating at the idea of taking over tpusa or at least being a heavy influence. He would have so many young and impressionable young minds to influence. IDK if he’s really trying to destroy maga or he wants to take over and go in another direction. He seems power hungry.
Forgot to comment on the subject of the article, Roberts and The Heritage Foundation: they can eff right off.
They’ve crossed over to the dark side. That was some speech he gave. SMH.
I could not agree more. This is about the survival of Western civilization, of which America and Israel are integral parts. As are Jews and Christians, Judaism and Christianity. The idea that America first means ignoring these cultural realities is fundamentally wrong. It’s why we fought in two world wars.
I have a more nuanced view of Tucker. He is so accustomed to exposing real cons that he sees them everywhere. For example, he is all excited about the nonsense of a government coverup of UFOs.
He is no intellectual giant, but rather a privileged insider who wants to break barriers on taboo subjects. About a quarter of what he covers is good. The rest I take with a grain of salt. He is not an evil antisemite, just an overgrown boy who relishes being a contrarian. This dark side lingo is ridiculous.
This makes sense. It’s bad enough, but let’s hope that’s all it is.
No, he’s a “Blame America First” type who is obsessed with “Zionists”, platforms Hitler apologists, and who needs to take his schizo meds.
Dunno, but there’s a difference between being a bad boy contrarian and promoting neo-nazi like dbags like Fuentes. Because anti-zionist absolutely is code for anti-jew.
So Tucker is afraid of TPUSA? TPUSA should release a statement theCharlie K would make. “We have a lot of common ground with Israel. Including common values routed in Judeo Christian beliefs “ we don’t need a schism now. The ME is a mess with too many people who want to destroy Israel. Everyone will lose. Remember, “ first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”
When Vance stood in for Charlie Kirk and brought Carlson on as a guest it told me plenty about Vance AND Turning Point.
TP, Vance, and Heritage can all take a hike
Well-stated, Professor Jacobson. I’ll also add that VP J.D. Vance shouldn’t escape criticism, here. He’s exhibited totally meek passivity in the face of Carlson’s defamatory, slanderous and unhinged Jew-hate that is indefensible and shameful, and, that also represents, by its silence, implicit acquiescence with Carlson’s bile and venom.
Vance did it again, the other night, at a recent college event (described at https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/the-tucker-tailwind.php), at which a student asked a shamefully bigoted and slanderous anti-Israel and anti-Jewish question, which Vance pointedly and indefensibly failed to robustly condemn, criticize or otherwise push back on. It’s extremely disturbing and disappointing, given Vance’s obvious intelligence, and, his loudly-professed faith. If Vance doesn’t possess the moral probity, moral clarity and courage to condemn obvious, obnoxious and dangerous expressions and manifestations of Jew-hate in the GOP, he isn’t fit to be president — period. That should be axiomatic.
I highly recommend Rod Dreher’s excellent and laudable essay on Carlson and the psychopathic, attention-seeking, narcissistic bigot and general idiot, Fuentes: https://roddreher.substack.com/p/nick-tucker-a-two-man-unite-the-right
100% Also, I believe that Tucker’s son, Buckley, is currently JD’s press secretary
How odd of God to choose the Jews, but not so odd as those who choose a Jewish God but reject the Jews.
Well, historically some went so far as to deny that he was a Jew. The Marcionites, for instance, by claiming that Jesus was not really human at all, avoided having him be a Jew, and in fact believed he had come to save the world from the Jews and their evil god.
Then you have people like Christian Identity who get around the problem by claiming that the Jews are not the Jews. Like the Black Hebrews, they claim the people known today as Jews have no connection to the Hebrews and Israelites of the Bible.
If you start off hating Jews you will always find a way to justify it.
Besides the Marcionites there were also Gnostic sects that were very anti-Jewish.
Chose the Jews meant chose the Jews for special responsibilities. Namely carrying a responsibility for the other guy. It’s a religious expression of a phenomenological result, expressing the human condition, that the other guy has priority. Everybody is a Jew.
I know about the “chose” part. It is to carry out His commandments on earth in exchange for a very itty-bitty piece of land we’ve had trouble hanging onto because of our failure to carry out His commandments.
That is garbage. Chosen to follow his commandments, not to be responsible for others. Only Jews are duty bound follow the commandments and to make covenants, Others are welcome to join in but are not obligated. Following the commandments leads to a good life, however.
Fortunately the Israeli government takes the responsibility to others line.
It’s not due to faith, but humanitarian law. Your theory about Jews remains garbage.
The Israeli government doesn’t give a sh*t about Judaism or Jewish values, or anything related to religion. It cares only about Western liberal values, and “international law” as defined by Western liberals.
Israel is a secular democracy, not a theocracy.
No, it is not. And don’t bother quoting Levinas at me.
I subscribed to Heritage Foundation for a couple of years in the mid 90’s. I stopped when I realized they weren’t what they claimed to be.
I always considered the Heritage Foundation a relic of the Country Club RINO era, whose best days were behind it, like Roseland Ballroom. You can still dance there, but it’s not where the action is.
For a thousand plus years, Islam conquered by the sword, but they have found a less bloodless way recently.
Londonistan. Parisistan. Soon to be New Yorkistan. The Somali colony of Minneapolis.
See a pattern?
Kristol. Fuentas. Tucker. Catholic charities.
Same pattern.
Deep throat says, ‘Follow the money – islamist money. A LOT of islamist money.’
And always blame the joooooos.
War is messy and expensive. Enslave the impotent infidels with filthy lucre is far more seductive, and efficient.
Infrastructure and technology can remain intact – for allah, of course.
However, the sword is still there – just in case.
We need to unite to put an end to islamo-fascism which is running rampant in the West and throughout the world.
Carlyle Group
TPUSA has got to separate from Tucker.
Kirk’s wife has got to demand it.
Very unfortunate that JD apparently is a coward
The problem is that people like Tucker are an important part of their power base. They can’t outright condemn them and treat them like Buckley treated the John Birch Society (even though the John Birch Society wasn’t even close to being as loathsome as these people.
They thought that they could just use them but have instead been used by them. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
They support Russia. I didn’t say they opposed aid to Ukraine, they literally support the complete annihilation of Ukraine and it’s people from existence.
Ending the Ukraine as an independent country would hardly wipe out its inhabitants.
And you’ll forgive me if I have little sympathy for a country that to this day celebrates Bogdan Chmielnitsky as its national hero. As far as I was concerned, if Putin could have won his war in a matter of a few days, I would have been fine with it.
Never mind the Russians have said they want to exterminate the Ukrainians.
Which Russians have said that? Where and when?
No, they haven’t ever said that.
Ukrainians simply remember the nationality of the commanders and overseers of the genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-1933.
I guess I’m the outsider here. I didn’t see anything offensive about Vance’s comment. In fact, Netenyahu just recently said Israel is independent from any outside pressure. Trump along with Vance wanted peace at almost any cost and Israel went along with that even though Hamas violated the agreement. Trump is a master at reading the room and in this case the world and he knows Israel is on the cusp of a PR disaster. We all know they are right to destroy Hamas but reality is a bitch. The msm of the world are 100% against Israel and Trump had to work with that and Bibi too. It is a fine dance and he did all that he could to make it work. Hamas did all it could for it to fail.
As for Tucker I don’t see him as the demon that many of you do. I just watched a C-Span interview with a Congresswoman from OR who was so stupid she made Kamala look good. But having her on did not make me think the C-Span lady was a Democrat idiot or supported her. I think Carlson is the same way, he presents horrible people so that you can see what’s out there. Not showing these people means they are never exosed. Maybe he is trying to show us just how sick some people really are?
The point is that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism, and normal conversation with critics of Israel is criminal anti-Semitism. At least on this website.
Criticism of specific policies of an Israeli government, is of course not antisemitism. But “criticism” of Israel’s right to exist, or of its right to preserve that existence, absolutely is antisemitism. And normalizing antisemites is antisemitic.
And if I recall your previous comments correctly, you are without question an antisemite.
Too generous by half. Carlson is promoting a dangerous type of Christianity and doing it with intention.
Bernard Harcourt, a marxist a Columbia, reads Trump as following the Heritage Foundation, as the existing alternative to progessivism in the spirit of the times. The enemy, in short, can’t read Trump at all.
Harcourt (trans Google)
Because our problematic today also poses for us, in the very moment, the same question in which we face the same dilemma. How is this possible today? In the United States, for example, the same religious faith, most often Christian, can serve as support for conservative, reactionary, or counter-revolutionary policies, but also for progressive movements. And how could the same belief in God fuel conservatism today and Altuser’s post-war Marxism? So, you may be familiar with the Heritage Foundation in the United States. It’s one of the most powerful think tanks, very conservative in the United States, very conservative from the beginning, founded in 1973 by the Corbicres family. It played an important role during Ronald Reagan’s presidency from 1980 to 1988, and a very important role during Donald Trump’s first term from 2016 to 2020. And as you probably know, in preparation for the 2024 elections, The foundation had prepared a long document, a white paper of almost 1,000 pages, entitled Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership. It was very controversial during the 2024 elections because it was a radical, far-right text that proposed a blueprint for dismantling the federal government’s administrative state in the United States. So radical, in fact, that candidate Donald Trump had to distance himself from it throughout the campaign. He said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was. Well, this radical document, Project 2025, has become the guiding principle for President Trump’s most extreme associates, particularly Stephen Miller, but also Russell V, the architect of Project 2025, who is now Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Donald Trump’s second administration. If today you want to know what the Trump administration and the far-right are going to do in any area of the United States, you only have to refer to Project 2025’s mandate for leadership. For example, the Trump administration wants to reduce the number of foreign students in American universities. As you know very well, I imagine. This comes directly from Project 2025. The administration announced its intention to revoke the visas of Chinese students, especially those who had ties with the Chinese Communist Party. This strategy is directly inspired by Project 2025, which announces on page 355 the objective of combating the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on higher education. President Trump has declared that he will redirect educational grants, including all grants that go to Harvard University, for example, toward technical education. I would like this money to go to trade schools, he declares, and this initiative is also again taken directly from the Project 2025 manual, which states on pages 15 and 16 and 319 that the federal government should prioritize trade schools and vocational training schools, as well as faith-based institutions and military academies rather than dominated by universities. The Trump administration is demanding that the Missas Middle Eastern Studies and African Studies program in Colombia be placed under academic supervision. Again, this comes directly from Project 2025, which calls on page 356 to phase out so-called area studies programs at universities and create them for this purpose using Title 6 of the Higher Education Acts of 1965. As you know, the President signed executive orders upon his inauguration prohibiting so-called DEI, Diversity Equity Inclusion, diversity efforts, and affirmative discrimination in institutions such as universities. Again, taken directly from page 322 of Project 2025 regarding educational institutions and civil rights enforcement to reject gender ideology and critical race theory. More generally, the first line of the education chapter of the 2025 project sums up the situation well. In the very first sentence, the document states that the Federal Department of Education should be abolished. So the Heritage Foundation is today the brains and cell of the far right of the Trump administration. It is intellectually based on Christianity. At the heart of Heritage thought is the Christian faith. This is clearly heard, for example, in the notion of freedom at the heart of the 2025 project, which has several dimensions. The first and predominant one is a religious dimension. Freedom is conceived as the fulfillment of God’s nature or intentions for humans. It is linked to the term bliss. This is where the word bliss of freedom comes in. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, explains, using his words bliss and bliss to describe the idea of freedom. This idea of freedom for The Heritage Foundation revolves around our supposed divine essence as human beings, which consists of founding a family and having children. It is based on the traditional nuclear family, marriage, the male-female binary, and therefore heterosexuality and monogamy. And in this vision, being free actually means being free to live out our human or divine nature. Freedom is not about being free to do what we want, but about doing what we must do. As Kevin Roberts writes, our constitution grants each of us the freedom to do not what we want, but what we must do. And what we must do is supposed to reflect divinely inspired human nature. This is a very denominational and moralistic conception of freedom that revolves around normative ideas of the traditional family, heterosexuality, and procreation. It is therefore a very Christian and denominational view of the family as the union of a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation. Marriage is the central institution. But it’s simply marriage between a man and a woman for the purpose of raising children in a nuclear family. Marriage between a man and a woman is considered a moral imperative and a cornerstone. Any deviation from this norm is considered unnatural. According to them, what liberal governments have done – the harm they have caused – is, in their words, to replace people’s natural loves and loyalties with unnatural ones. Thus, the very first promise the Heritage Foundation makes in the 2025 Project is to restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and to protect our children. So the Christian family is the source and heart of the Heritage Foundation’s worldview. And what follows, what flows from it, is quite radical. The unrelated concepts of natural and artificial lead to forms of fundamentalism regarding the family and traditional human relationships.
Men and Women.
In their text, they propose removing all federal rules and regulations that contain the term sexual orientation or gender identity, or even the word gender. The next president, they write, will be a conservative president. So it’s written in 2024 before the election, before anyone knew that President Trump was going to be elected. The next conservative president must make the institutions of American civil society difficult targets for activists of the W culture. This starts with removing the terms sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Gender, gender equality, gender inequity, gender sensitivity, gender-sensitive abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other terms used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights, from all federal rules, agency regulations, contracts, grants, regulations, and existing legislation. Okay. So he’s going to remove, he’s going to have to remove the term gender from all federal laws and regulations. So, a pretty radical intervention, and it’s a direct product, according to Kevin Roberts, of the Christian faith and the place of religion in this conservative vision. So, how do we reconcile this traditional faith-based vision with its opposite? whether it was in the 1950s with Altuser, as we have seen, a young Christian Marxist, or today with so many thinkers like my colleague Thomas Anthony Durkin a few months ago who were convinced that the first Christian fathers were communists.
https://youtu.be/KzwR9OA-Qto?t=789
A more ethical reading of the Talmud (see Levinas, Difficult Freedom) would make Judaism superior to Christianity. Hostility to this reading in the US loses this superiority.
Go. Away.
“Emmanuel Levinas’s method of interpreting the Torah, primarily conducted through his “Talmudic readings,” is a unique philosophical-ethical approach that views the text as an open-ended call for infinite interpretation and ethical responsibility toward the Other. He combined traditional rabbinic methods with Western philosophical insights, particularly phenomenology, to find universal human lessons within Jewish sources. ”
Finding it as universal is what wins understanding. Translating Hebrew into Greek.
You mean an inauthentic and ignorant reading of only selected parts of the Talmud, while rejecting the rest, based on the writings of someone who in all likelihood never set foot in a yeshiva in his life, and who I doubt could read Aramaic with any fluency.
Ted Cruz? He stated, plainly, that he became a senator to serve the people of Israel. Not Texas. Not the United States. That wasn’t an accident.
Tucker’s ascent on this matter is fueled by American politicians that are, for whatever reason, more interested in what’s going on over there and not what’s going on over here. American tax dollars make Israeli healthcare and universities free while American citizens live paycheck to paycheck.
I cannot find where he said that. I find that he says that as a Christian, he is Biblically commanded to bless (and support) Israel. Can you give a source for this?
SPLC is wetting their pants in glee. They named a nazi correctly.
I’ll never understand hatred of Jews.
Is there some theme from centuries ago where Jews behaved like savages where objectively one could base a stereotype?
They finally found a real one, Dumbledore would suggest they get a pay rise… lol
Since tucker got himself canceled at fox news, he was forced to find new way to pay the bills. He appears to be for sale to the highest bidder as “influencer”.
Tucker has made some glowing, supportive comments on Shariah Law too
Tucker Carlson is a media wh0re. He is from SF that votes 90% dem, a very unusual place to hail from for a conservative thinker. He was known to say over drinks when the music was loud, and he could maintain plausibility of deniability, that there really was no difference between what he was doing at fox and counter-parts at msnbc. IOW they were are just getting paid to generate click traffic and stir the pot. He might not have any real political beliefs that can’t be bought or sold. After he got canceled and found himself unemployable, he might have found contract work as “media consultant” to promote talking points of Al Jazeera and/or Russia Today? Nobody else going to hire him?
Fuentes is definitely a loony antisemitic goon. TC gave him a platform and mostly let Fuentes ramble though he did poke/prod/pushback a bit more than his usual completely passive interview style. TC seems to be either relishing his independence as a not quite forbidden conspiracy gadfly going over the acceptable line more often, he’s always been kooky or he’s letting glimpses his true nature be revealed. TC needs to take a step back and review how his actions are perceived/received by others and decide how he’s gone proceed from here.
IMO ‘America First’ means just that; the interests of the USA and US Citizens come before other considerations. Not sure why that’s considered objectionable by anyone who purports to hold the same viewpoint. With Vance remarks in particular there seems to be a good bit of implied/actual criticism that he didn’t reject the premise of the questioner. That seems awful similar to how the d/prog and their legacy media allies try to create ‘gotcha’ scenarios where if some random GoP candidate or office holder makes a bonehead comment every GoP candidate or official gets repeatedly asked if they agree.
I believe there’s a division on Israel not about support or not support as the primary line of separation but rather a more basic question; is Israel another Nation in the world or is it somehow ‘different’. I’m in the Israel is another Nation camp. Those who take the opposite tack fall into two main groups; the anti Israel/anti Semites and the pro Israel/Jewish Zionist/Christian Zionist.
IMO the whole ‘Israel is different’ position sets up and lends credibility to the loony antisemitic ravings of weirdos like Fuentes b/c it allows these weirdos to piggyback their antisemitism onto it. After all if Israel is ‘different’ than other Nations then they should be treated differently than other Nations …and the different treatment might be different but positive or different but negative.
Has anyone from Heritage’s Board of Trustees commented?
If Heritage and Tucker had just kept their mouths shut about Jews, most the of people who have recently started to criticize them would still be defending them. The sheer fact of the matter is that the rest of their “New Right” ideology fits with anti-Semitism like a hand in a bespoke glove.
This is the true face of the post-conservative “Right” who ironically call themselves “common good conservative” while they facetiously ask “what have conservatives ever conserved”. They “fight like the Left” by embracing, and increasingly openly, Gramsian analysis and even frameworks, critical theory, and now even Carl Schmitt. Heritage was taken over and transformed into a venerable organization into a vehicle for these people to wear like a skinsuit to hid their Leftist way of thinking.
Perhaps reflect that this anti-Semitism, or at least the willingness to accept anti-Semitism a legitimate belief, is not an aberration from what they believe but rather consistent with what and how they think.
Outside of the hysterics what Heritage is saying isn’t that bad. Don’t de platform someone. Let them speak, make a complete fool of themselves and come up with a better argument.
Heritage has been around for decades. They are concerned about being labeled as old establishment conservative RINO in the age of trumpism. They are trying to stay relevant by trying to sound red pill without really knowing how to do it.
@Millhouse
“The US founders, or at least the clique around Washington, were best described as Unitarians, though only Adams was officially one. The rest of that clique, except Mason, held unitarian beliefs while attending orthodox Christian churches.”
I cannot speak specifically about the close associates of Washington, because I don’t know who they were, but I was recently given a list of statements about religion taken from the writings and the wills of 50 important figures from that time period–signers of the Declaration of Independence, ambassadors, Supreme Court Justices, cabinet members, etc. Ben Franklin and Washington were on the list, so I don’t think it was deliberately excluding Unitarians and deists. In any case, substantially more than half of the men on that list made explicitly Christian statements about Jesus as their savior and/or their hope of salvation being in his blood shed on Calvary. I’m not denying there were deists and similar folk among those leaders who founded America, but I’m suspicious that their numbers have been exaggerated by people who wish that America’s founders were not predominantly Christian.
There were certainly a lot of Christians in those days. But George Washington and his group of friends, who were the most prominent among the founders, included only one orthodox Christian, George Mason. The rest were not deist, as is often asserted, but unitarians. They did not believe that Jesus was God, or could save them, but they definitely did believe in a Creator Who continues to run the world, pays attention to prayer, rewards the good and punishes the bad.
Thomas Paine, who was a deist, and thus didn’t believe in that, was very much not a part of that group and they didn’t like him. There’s a reason Washington let him languish in a French prison for so long, when he was arrested for daring to vote against the execution of the former king and queen, who had done nothing wrong and were living as private citizens. (Ironically, in Rights of Man he had made a big deal of the fact that the French revolutionaries had not harmed the king.)
Sounds to me like this is all nothing more than a lot of pedantic Blah Blah by some people who take themselves far too seriously. Though if the Vice President gets caught up in this it will be very disappointing.
Christian Zionism – if defined as: the ethnically Jewish people must be protected by Christians because they are still God’s chosen people – is absolute heresy. Salvation is by grace alone and faith alone in Christ alone. There is no longer Jew, nor, Greek, nor Scythian nor slave nor free. If you believe pointing this truth out makes me an anti-Semite, I say: here I stand, I can say no other. (But also, I would say you are wrong to consider that anti-Semitic.)
Not antisemitic, just wrong. Christians should best worry about themselves and leave Jews to practice their faith, which is older and does not rely on belief that a man is God.
Neither should literalize their religion. It’s an allegory for ordinary ethical truths that already organize human behavior. Ethics produces religion after decent authors finish their work, rather than vice versa.
The literalizers are uniformly loons. The downside of Kirk to take one example.
You have enough problems of your own, evidenced above, to tell anyone or any religion what to do or to explain what they are about with loonish theories and pronouncements.
(Wittgenstein citing Kierkegaard)
“Kierkegaard writes: `If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments?’ – Question: But in that case why is this Scripture so unclear? If we want to warn someone of a terrible danger, do we go about it by telling him a riddle whose solution will be the warning? – But who is to say that the Scripture really is unclear? Isn’t it possible that it was essential in this case to “tell a riddle?” And that, on the other hand, giving a more direct warning would necessarily have had the wrong effect? God has four people recount the life of his incarnate Son, in each case differently and with inconsistencies – but might we not say: It is important that this narrative should not be more than quite averagely historically plausible just so that this should not be taken as the essential, decisive thing? So that the letter should not be believed more strongly than is proper and the spirit may receive its due. I.e. what you are supposed to see cannot be communicated even by the best and most accurate historian; and therefore a mediocre account suffices, is even to be preferred. For that too can tell you what you are supposed to be told. (Roughly in the way a mediocre stage set can be better than a sophisticated one, painted trees better than real ones, – because these might distract from what matters).”
Not interested in having a debate. Your interpretations remain garbage.
This whole argument is about non Christians telling Christians what their religion requires. I’m not telling Jews anything.
Only that their God has been replaced by another.
Israel clearly still serves God’s purposes. He shows His Mighty and Powerful Hand through the Jewish people. If you don’t see miracles when you look at the history of the Jewish people, you aren’t looking.
How can you downvote what I said? And why would you?
They can be blessed through some of the old covenants and still no longer be Gods chosen people. And frankly, still be unsaved. If you believe Jews who deny Christ can be saved salvifically, you do not understand the gospel.
As I noted in another comment, I think you are conflating salvation with chosenness. They are two distinct things. I do not expect Christians to believe that I am saved. If Christianity is true then it follows that I am not saved. But I do expect Christians to believe that I am Chosen. That I am of the “children” in Matthew 15;26, and not of the “dogs”. That when I go to Hell, as you must believe I will, God will be sad about it, and will still love me even in Hell. (Which I don’t believe exists, but you do.)
You’re right – there is a lot of bad theology on this board, but then again it’s a political blog, not a theological one. Chew the hay and spit out the sticks. I don’t trust anyone’s spiritual musings on this board, but I will absolutely judge their political positions based on my spiritual beliefs, as I expect they would do to mine.
Dr Ransom, the Bible, which you accept as your Bible, says that God made an irrevocable treaty with the Jews, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God told Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you”. And He had Bil’am say, “God is not a man, who disappoints, nor is He a human, who changes his mind.” God repeatedly promised the Jews that throughout their travails and the punishments He would give them, He would never abandon or replace them.
Therefore for a Christian to deny that the ethnically Jewish people are still God’s chosen people would seem to me to contradict a fundamental Christian belief in the Bible’s inerrancy.
This has nothing to do with the Christian notion of Salvation. It is not at all antisemitic for a Christian to believe that Jews who don’t accept Jesus can’t be saved. But that doesn’t change the fact that they remain God’s own people, His first-born son, and His treasure among the nations.
Tucker Carlson has long “gone off the reservation”, just after the 2020 election when he was fired from Fox. His bow tie must have been tied too tight for too long. However, it is particularly damning to see Heritage Foundation supporting Carlon’s trope. Someone needs to speak the trustees of the foundation and set its President straight. Any type of religious hatred is not tolerated.
Just when I thought we were finally winning the battle, they pull this stupid shit.
while I agree that j bashing is second nature to the uncivilized
carlson is providing us with a much needed service in exposing who’s who in this complicit arena
this nick fuentas and allll the rest may or may not be true haters of judiasm
any christian worth his salt knows that the judeo -christian ethical approach to life far far surpasses any other approach or at the least coincides with any that want peace
so is tucker (helping) to spread j hatred? no more so than any organization that allows for open thoughts/opinions to be expressed
should we be worried about it?
yes… as those thoughts must be countered
can one hate african politics /tribalism but say they are not prejudiced against black people ?
yes
Sounds like the kids caught in Nazi chats, trying to take over the young republicans organization, were groypers of the Tucker/Fuentes strain.
Or agents provocateur.
I watched some of Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes and I found it frightening. While Tucker claimed that he is only interested in universal treatment regardless of identity, he said nothing in response to Fuentes suggestion that America’s problems are the fault of organized Jewry and that Jews are a problem everywhere because they can’t be assimilated.This is crazy. American Jews are assimilated. The fact that they have been successful in many areas of American life does not make them less American.
What Fuentes is saying is that on the one hand, Jews have no place in America. But on the other hand, we should not support Israel militarily or diplomatically because it is not in America’s interest. Basically he is arguing that the world should get rid of the Jews. That is a frightening view and it is unsettling that it is a view that is gaining adherents on both the left and the right.
Tucker. I haven’t listened or paid attention to him in years. I found that he tried too hard to be “honest.” I would not like to see any involvement of Tucker in TPUSA. He would plunder it for all it’s worth.
Ignoring the negative comments and antisemitism I simply don’t understand the hatred for Jews. It makes no sense. They are self-sufficient, have contributed knowledge in the sciences, mathematics, literature. Israel is the FIRST to offer help to earthquake victims. Israel even took care of terrorists in their hospitals with Jewish doctors – terroristswho wanted to bomb their land. Makes no sense.
The first time I have ever seriously considered sitting out an election in my entire lifetime is for 2028 and it is because J.D. Vance can’t stop associating with Groypers and pandering to the far right.
Ronald Raegan was a great president.
I have never cited his declaring he does not want your vote if you are in any association with the Ku Kluk Klan because I never considered that part to be anything more than him being a human being.
Heritage Foundation can go straight to hell as far as I’m concerned.
From Rubio to Trump nobody else in the Republican Party is busy pandering to the far right at all.
I am not the only one who is considering telling J.D. Vance fuck you and get your online nazis to vote for you if you can’t just separate yourself from them.
The real world and people who live there get a say to and I am sick to death of seeing 1920s Germany and I will not engage in that and am planning on voting for whoever is in the Republican Primary who is more likely to keep J.D. Vance from being nominated.
I was extremely alienated by his defending 35 year olds acting like Nazis and calling black people monkeys, and I am not ashamed to say I have standards.
I’m gonna take the view that any talking point and/or opinion offered up by the leftist rag ‘The Nation’ intended to gin up controversy, create a split in GoP or damage the presumptive GoP frontrunner for ’28 should be ignored.
If Vance didn’t say the specific magic words you wanted when commenting on a controversy he wasn’t part of, didn’t have diddly squat to do with and that makes you get in your feels …its a free Country. This kind of crap is old school d/prog agitprop; find an offensive statement by someone on the ‘right’ no matter how obscure and then demand every GoP office holder, official, candidate or supporter/advocate must utter the specific incantation or else be tarred with the acts of others. It was bush league BS then and it remains bush league BS today.
Carlson has bolted through the looking glass, swan-dived down the rabbit hole, and shot out the bottom into a Jew-hating Twilight Zone – just crazy.