Posted on 10/30/2025 5:24:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Fox News host and analyst Tucker Carlson continued his descent into rank antisemitism on Tuesday, publishing an interview with far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes, who has engaged in open holocaust denial and praised Hitler in the past.
Despite former disagreements between them, Carlson and Fuentes bonded over their shared suspicion of “these Jews,” as well as their distaste for Christian Zionism and its supporters among the Republican Party.
The self-identified lapsed Episcopalian Carlson lauded Fuentes for his criticism of Israel and U.S. support for it, “because it’s insane and it hurts us. We get nothing out of it. I completely agree with you there.”
He went on to blast Christian Zionists who he said were “seized by this brain virus,” listing figures like Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, John Bolton, George W. Bush and Carl Rove.
“Christian Zionists — like what is that? … I dislike them more than anybody, you know, because it’s Christian heresy and I’m offended by that as a Christian,” Carlson declared in the interview.
“If you wake up in the morning and decide that your Christian faith means you have to support whatever the Israeli government does, that's not Christianity — that's something else.”
Huckabee responded to clip from the interview, writing on X that he “Wasn’t aware that Tucker despises me. I do get that a lot from people not familiar with the Bible or history. Somehow I will survive the animosity.”
Senator Cruz commented, “It’s remarkable, and sad, watching Tucker turn into Nick Fuentes.” Cruz had defended U.S. support for Israel in a notably hostile interview with Carlson earlier this year.
The interview with Fuentes drew strong criticism from several popular Republican voices.
Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza wrote, “I debated Nick Fuentes because the two of us strongly disagree. We are not on the same side. Tucker did a friendly, almost devotional interview with Nick because the two of them are on the same side.”
Orthodox Christian author Rod Dreher, who said he had considered Carlson a friend, wrote on his Substack blog that “this was a bright red line that I was hoping Tucker would not cross. But cross it he did. … Total softball interview, entirely sympathetic. Shockingly so.”
“Tucker asked nothing about Fuentes’s past statements praising Hitler, or any number of horrific things that have come out of that kid’s mouth, (e.g., ‘We will make Jews die in the holy war.’).”
“Carlson has, by this squishy-soft interview, introduced Fuentes into the right-wing mainstream. It is legit freaky that we have reached this point in American life. It is, in fact, Weimar America time,” Dreher concluded.
Author Eric Metaxas argued, “What's really going on is that we are seeing Satan trying to push Christian faith out of the MAGA movement. Those who love Jesus love the Jews. Read my Bonhoeffer book on that. Let's pray Tucker repents of this grievous misstep.”
Despite Fuentes’ well-known admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Carlson cautiously pushed back against his type of overt Jew-hatred, claiming he is “not that interested in ‘the Jews,’ but I am very interested in the foreign policy question.”
“The second you’re like, ‘Well, actually, it’s the Jews,’ first of all, it’s against my Christian faith. Like, I just don’t believe that, and I never will. Period,” he said.
Carlson explained that his aversion to Christian Zionism began around 2003, when he became “pissed at the neocons [Neoconservatives]” allegedly driving U.S. foreign policy by instigating the Iraq War.
Fuentes explained that in his opinion, “neoconservatism arises from Jewish leftists who are mugged by reality when they saw the surprise attack during the Yom Kippur War.”
“As far as the Jews are concerned, you cannot actually divorce Israel and the neocons and all those things that you talk about from Jewishness: ethnicity, religion, identity,” Fuentes told Carlson.
Among his opponents on the right, Fuentes sees “Jewishness as the common denominator,” he said.
“They’re a stateless people. They’re unassimilable. They resist assimilation for thousands of years. And I think that’s a good thing. And now they have this territory in Israel. There’s a deep religious affection for the state. It’s bound up in their identity.”
“If you are a Jewish person in America, it’s sort of rational self-interest, politically, to say, ‘I am a minority. I am a religious, ethnic minority. This is not really my home. My ancestral home is in Israel,'” Fuentes said.
Despite being a major force on the (online) right wing and having once dined with the president, Fuentes and his “groyper” movement have notably turned against the MAGA movement and President Donald Trump.
In the interview, Fuentes attacked fellow antisemite and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom Carlson praised in this interview, as well as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent.
He alleged they had betrayed the core ideals of the “America First” movement, which he claims to uphold.
In the past, Fuentes also criticized Vice President JD Vance as “the end state of Trumpism, a complete fabrication who was created in a lab by Peter Thiel,” and said he will urge his supporters to “either stay home or vote for a protest candidate” if Vance runs on the Republican presidential ticket in 2028.
This had caused Carlson to attack Fuentes, suggesting he was a federal agent running a “psyop” against conservatives and calling him a “weird little gay kid in his basement.”
However, Tuesday’s interview apparently served to settle the dispute between the two, with Carlson nudging the once-radioactive Fuentes further into the conservative mainstream.
“I’m sorry I called you gay, by the way, but I’m always, I think I’m just too old or something. I’m like, ‘Why [isn’t] anyone married?’,” Carlson said.
Author Rod Dreher concluded, “The fact that Tucker Carlson, the most influential right-wing media figure in America, went from dismissing Fuentes early this year as a gay twerp in a Chicago basement, to having him on his show and blessing him with a soft interview, is a sign of the times. And not a good one.”
TPUSA needs to run from this clown.
Forgetting Fuentes for a moment, how exactly is a Christian who supports the right of Jews to their homeland a "heretic"?
Carlson claims to be a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA).
The Episcopal Church’s doctrine is rooted in:
* The Bible,
* The Nicene Creed, Apostles’ Creed, and Athanasian Creed,
* The Book of Common Prayer, and
* The Constitution and Canons of the Church.
None of these documents mention modern nation-states, Zionism, or opposition to a Jewish homeland.
Tucker and “the Squad” in Congress are sharing the same fundamentalist anti-Isreal values. They should start a club and hang out together more.
Sad.
You should all run.
You have lost the argument. All you have left is name calling, censorship and cancelling. And those tactics are running out too.
The false religion of dispensationalism that was created in the 1800’s by very corrupt men, has run its course.
The ethno state of Israel that was created by the UN in 1948 is losing its control of our government and will need to find their own way without the backing of my Christian nation. There is a huge conservative Christian upswing in the youth and they are rejecting the trickery and manipulation that Republicans have fallen for over the past 30 years.
A new day is dawning.
Now go ahead and call me names instead of countering my arguments. That’s all you have left.
They are rejecting foriegn aid. So do I. They are not rejecting Israel. The hersey lies with those he de- Judize Christianity and try to blame Israel for everything. You guys hate Israel more than the left.
“Christian Zionists — like what is that? … I dislike them more than anybody, you know, because it’s Christian heresy and I’m offended by that as a Christian,”
Now suddenly Carlson is a pious Christian? I doubt it. But it’s a nice foil for attacking pro-Israeli Christians. And BTW, I know there are competing arguments relating to “Christian Zionism”, so I don’t wish to wade into that. I’m only expressing skepticism that Carlson’s opinion on the matter is based on an objective, sober, and scholarly examination of scripture.
It never had control of our Government. You fight the wrong enemy all the time. You are a cuck of the left. The War is within and you chase shadows. You are useless.
Christians are NOT required to support the political state of Israel. Christianity (in particular, the apostolic church) is the full completeness of Old Testament Judaism. It is beyond me how many people have allowed themselves to be convinced that we are required to support an obsolete religion.
We should be the ones controlling Jerusalem.
I really hate this. First of all I hate the way the left controls language. “Christian nationalist” was a word construction of the left that the right instantly played into. Second of all I hate the way what’s his name shallowly plays into the “christian nationalist” frame. the guy is episcoplian which means he is most likely to understand way too little about christianity or christian history. there was a time when he confessed as much.
Devilish lies. You souritualize YRSHUA’s relationship with Israel to the Church. He isrhe Jewish Messiah, that is his Earthly role. He is returning to Jerusalem to rule a JEWISH land. Israel is a fulfillment of Prophecy DESPITE ITSELF, indded it deserves no honor, but because GOD is faithful to it. He dors not break his Covenants.
It is a heresy because it is based on the false notion that the Jews are still living under a separate Old Covenant rather than being called to the New Covenant in Jesus Christ.
He is your basic Catholic Secular Humanist who thinks the Jews have been replaced.
Do you want me to do the indignity of posting every one of our Presidents, VPs, congressmen, Senators, businessmen, etc… kissing their wall? Do you want me to rank the foreign recipients of our tax dollars? Do you want me to list the politicians and pundits who have had their lives and careers ruined over the past 20 years immediately after questioning our relationship with Israel? When Trump started saying “America First” it pulled back the curtain and exposed our unhealthy relationship with Israel. I respect that at least you accused me of hating Israel and not “the Joos”.
The only doctrine any church should be rooted in is the Bible. All of that other stuff is made up by man and man is fallible.
Catholics do not think that Jews have been replaced but rather are called like the Gentiles to the one Covenant in Jesus Christ. Until very recently this was held by all Christians.
Are you a Josh Hammerite?
Freepers for Zionism.
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