Posted on 11/04/2025 12:13:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Genuine concern about antisemitism on the right is being hijacked by neocons to attack J.D. Vance in hopes of re-taking control of the GOP.
Let’s get something straight about the civil war breaking out on the right: it’s not primarily about Tucker Carlson “platforming” or “normalizing” Nick Fuentes, or about Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ decision to defend Carlson, or even about the rise of antisemitism on the right.
The primary target here isn’t Carlson or Roberts, but Vice President J.D. Vance. And the people targeting him are Never Trump foreign policy interventionists who hope to destroy the MAGA movement and take back control of the Republican Party after Trump is gone.
Genuine concern about Carlson interviewing Fuentes, and about the kind of antisemitism that Fuentes and his followers espouse, is being hijacked to wage a proxy war on Vance because of his America First noninterventionist foreign policy views. The idea is to smear Vance as a dangerous antisemite and someone who can’t be trusted in the White House.
There is of course room for good-faith disagreement on the right about whether Carlson should have interviewed Fuentes, or the timing and wisdom of Roberts’ statement. There’s also room for vigorous discussion about how best to persuade young people like Fuentes to abandon their most odious, antisemitic views. Those are important debates, and conservatives of good will should by all means have them. Concern about antisemitism on the right is legitimate and warranted.
But what’s happening now is something else entirely. It’s a political op, and the target is Vance. The collective struggle session that has unfolded on the right in recent days — ritual denunciations of Carlson and Roberts, performative virtue-signaling on X — has been carried out by the people most opposed to an America First noninterventionist foreign policy after...
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I thought Kevin Roberts made a very reasoned announcement. There was nothing anti Semitic in what he said.
There are attempts being made to change the MAGA movement to more closely resemble the old GOP.
You can see it happening. I do not like it.
Both the neocons AND the Fuentes fags are trying to hijack MAGA
It is good to see a well reasoned and reasonable article on this topic—the first one I have seen so far.
Anyone who can’t see who is holding the strings attached to Fuentes’ narrow little ass is willfully blind.
Vance has nothing to do with it.
Whatever the mob tells you to think, be sure to obey them, because you are highly intelligent.
I know why I am rejecting Tucker and it’s because he’s acting like a Muslim press agent!
I think there is an attempt being made to ensure that neither MAGA nor the broader GOP is associated with the blatant anti-semitism of people like Fuentes and Tucker.
And a good thing it is.
That's one very good reason. My reason for rejecting him was when I concluded he was fundamentally dishonest.
Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro need to get a grip.
You just stick to supporting raging anti-semites. It suits you.
You enjoy the “anti semite” trope a bit too much.
The left has been playing that game for decades.
It is getting really old.
Half the Jews in Israel are against Netanyahu.
Are they "anti-semites" too?
Good article which gives a reasonable explanation as what is going on with the right.
Fuentes statements about Jews don’t distinguish between specific jews. He hates them all.
Are you done ruuning your face... full auto smear-posting?
Nobody gives one single F what you think about anybody here.
BS. Everyone is quite logically concerned that nazis are being platformed by “respectable” outlets like Tucker. This is a perfectly reasonable complaint. Stop with the neocon garbage every time someone has a critique of “America First”.
OK. I’ll bite: who is holding the strings attached to Fuentes’ butt? I’m not willfully blind to anything.
That is yet another smear on Fuentes.
One of his producers is Jewish.
Cut us a break.
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