At RJC Summit, Ted Cruz Slams Right-Wing Embrace of Antisemitic Figures

Tucker Carlson antisemitism sparks Heritage crisis

Right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson's flirtation with antisemitism isn't new, but this past week, he ignited a storm, shaking one of America's most important conservative organizations. At the center of the turmoil stands the Heritage Foundation – the most important research institute on the American Right, now facing an unprecedented crisis marked by resignation demands, departures, and internal revolt. There has been speculation that @Heri…

Great MAGA Crack-Up Features Antisemites, Ultra-Zionists And (Of Course) Misogynists

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-UpIt was always only a matter of time: MAGA, with its racial purity obsession and America First tendencies, was always the strangest of bedfellows with the Miriam Adelson wing of the Trump administration. Shared Islamophobia, panic about sharia law coming to the …

Conservatives Shocked, Shocked To Find Nazis In This Establishment

How did conservatives Nazi this coming? They didn’t want to.The modern Right in America has been playing footsie with Nazis for years. Decades, even. You know it. We know it. Journalists and political scientists and historians and everyone else to the left of, say, Lindsay Graham has been screaming about it and documenting it for so long that we can’t remember a time when they weren’t. There probably has never been a time when they weren’t.So im…

'You are a coward': Republicans erupt after conservative leader defends extremist

Prominent conservatives are rebuking Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation — the organization behind Project 2025 and self-described “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement — after he threw his support behind right-wing political commentator and podcaster Tucker Carlson, now under fire for platforming far-right extremist leader Nick Fuentes this week.The editors of the right-wing National Review in a scathing editorial …

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said this about podcaster and antisemitic Nick Fuentes: “Canceling him is not the answer.” | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, h…

At RJC summit, Ted Cruz slams right-wing embrace of antisemitic figures

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized Republicans who refuse to disavow prominent antisemites in the conservative movement as “cowards” after the Heritage Foundation and its president, Kevin Roberts, defended Tucker Carlson and his friendly interview with neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes. Cruz warned during a half hour address at the opening of the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual summit in Las Vegas on Thursday evening that young Christians were …