The Right’s Thirty-Year War

The Right’s Thirty-Year War

The battles raging on the right since Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes are not new. They are a continuation of a conflict that goes back more than thirty years, to the era when conservatives faced watershed questions about what conservatism would mean in the post-Reagan and post–Cold War world. Controversies over anti-Semitism marked this debate from the very beginning.  The battle lines were drawn in the late 1980s and early ’90s be…