Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Kevin Roberts, Robert P. George

• The Wrong "One Voice", by Jonah Goldberg. The Dispatch 10/31/25 -- gets to the heart of Robert's problematic defense of Tucker Carlson:

  But something funny happened to Carlson after he struck out on his own in “independent media.” To whatever extent he asked fearless, tough questions and told necessary but unpopular truths before (a very debatable proposition), he pretty much gave up even the pretense of any of that once he struck out on his own with his personal media platform. He didn’t ask particularly tough questions of the Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. He didn’t speak truth to power when speaking to Vladimir Putin, he lobbed softballs at him—when he wasn’t walking around Moscow like a pitchman for the Kremlin Grocers Association. He did show a little grit interviewing Sen. Ted Cruz about his support of Israel and strikes on Iran but was fairly servile when talking to the actual president of Iran.

  More recently, Carlson has invited a slew of Jew haters, anti-American cranks, and crackpots on his show, and Roberts has stood with him. When Carlson invited Darryl Cooper, a loopy Holocaust and World War II revisionist on his show in September 2024, he didn’t ask him any meaningfully tough questions, unless variants of “tell me more” are tough questions. Roberts did tweet a defense of Winston Churchill after Cooper and Tucker had floated the batty claim that Churchill was the real villain of World War II. But Roberts was careful not to mention Carlson. Roberts didn’t noticeably dissent from Cooper’s claims that Jews just ended up dead because the Germans failed to plan for all of their POWs. And then, just to make it clear he didn’t hold the Cooper interview against him, Roberts appeared at a Tucker Carlson Live event days later. He then recruited Carlson to write a "Dear Fellow Patriot" fundraising letter for Heritage 10 days after Carlson called Cooper "the most important historian in the United States."

  All of this past context is prologue for the events of the last week. Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, a Hitler- and Stalin-loving rabid antisemite and racist, on his show. Carlson asked no meaningfully tough questions of the Jew-hating gargoyle. They just had a nice chat about how much they hate Zionism, Zionists, especially Christian ones (like George W. Bush, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruz who suffer from what Carlson calls the “brain virus” of Zionism), and agreed in word and deed to form a kind of de facto mutual admiration society.

• Kevin Roberts' initial video on Twitter in unabashed defense of Tucker Carlson 10/30/25.
• Kevin Roberts' subsequent meeting w/ Heritage Foundation staff upset over his speech defending Tucker's interview with Fuentes 11/5/25.
  • ‘I Made A Mistake’: Heritage Foundation President Apologizes to Staff 11/05/25.
• Heritage Foundation Board Member Resigns Over Video Defending Carlson. New York Times 11/17/25. Robert P. George, said the think tank’s president had refused to retract his video defending Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with an openly antisemitic white supremacist.
• Statement of Robert P. George Twitter, 11/1/25:

  A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family. Everything else I believe about ethics and politics in one way or another stands upon or presupposes that principle. Any form of “conservatism” (or “liberalism”) that denies it in principle or transgresses it in practice is alien to me.

  That is why I believe that the conservative movement, though it can and should be a broad tent, simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent and equal dignity of all. As a conservative, I say that there is no place for such people in our movement.

  So, while I understand and appreciate that politics is about “adding and multiplying, not subtracting and dividing,” and though I welcome conservatives representing a range of viewpoints on a wide swath of issues, I will not—I cannot—accept the idea that we have “no enemies to the right.” The white supremacists, the antisemites, the eugenicists, the bigots, must not be welcomed into our movement or treated as normal or acceptable.

• The Right’s Thirty-Year War, by Daniel McCarthy. First Things 11/18/25 - situates the latest rupture between Robert P. George and the Heritage Foundation in a long history of conflict between (neo)conservatives and paleoconservatives, back to William F. Buckley's anguished parting with Pat Buchanan and Richard Sobran, and Fr. Neuhaus' leaving Chronicles and the Rockford Institute to found Firt Things.
• Prof. George Is Right: Principle Sustains American Conservatism, by Peter Berkowitz. Real Clear Politics 11/16/25.