Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts doubled down on the influential conservative group's support for Tucker Carlson, who has been leaning into increasingly explicit antisemitism and opposition to Israel on his podcast, and expressed unwillingness to "cancel" neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes….
He said the group would "always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else's agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains — and as I have said before — always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation."
Roberts rejected those criticizing Carlson as a "venomous coalition" and said that "their attempt to cancel him will fail."
This and related rhetoric is bad enough, but I was especially struck by this:
