Earlier this month, a right-wing civil war erupted online after Tucker Carlson hosted the openly racist and antisemitic streamer Nick Fuentes on his podcast, reigniting the age-old question of where to draw the line in political coalition-building. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts first defended Carlson, then sharply rebuked Fuentes — a splitting-hairs approach that pleased no one and resulted in staff resignations and calls for Roberts to be ousted.
Efforts to limit the growing influence of Carlson and Fuentes, especially among young men, have been compared to “cancel culture” on the Right. Others recall the precedent set by National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., who famously worked to cast the antisemitic John Birch Society out of the conservative mainstream.
Let us be clear: The Right — its institutions, media, and broader political
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