On October 30, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted a two and a half–minute video to his X account. The institutional American right has been mired in crisis ever since.
In the video, Roberts, who leads the country's largest conservative think tank, came unequivocally to the defense of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, after Carlson caused an uproar for hosting an antisemitic online influencer named Nick Fuentes for a chummy two-hour interview on his show. The conservative blogger Rod Dreher described the sit-down as "a bright red line that I was hoping Tucker would not cross. But cross it he did….Total softball interview, entirely sympathetic. Shockingly so."
