Overview
- Tucker Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes on his podcast in an unchallenging conversation that critics say laundered the white nationalist’s Holocaust‑denying rhetoric to a mass audience.
- Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts publicly defended Carlson and only later denounced Fuentes’s views, prompting staff unrest, donor concerns, and reported calls from some employees for Roberts to step down.
- Laurie Cardoza‑Moore, an Evangelical Zionist leader, withdrew from Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism in protest over the organization’s stance toward Carlson.
- Commentators including Ben Shapiro condemned Carlson’s role in mainstreaming Fuentes, while Christianity Today warned of a growing Nazification trend influencing younger conservative and evangelical circles.
- Coverage highlights a widening split on the right between pro‑Israel conservatives and America First non‑interventionists, with some outlets noting Fuentes’s rising profile and framing him as a potential successor to the late Charlie Kirk.