Posted on 11/07/2025 9:31:33 AM PST by conservative98
WASHINGTON — Former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore resigned from the conservative Heritage Foundation on Thursday amid fierce backlash — and pressure from donors — over think tank president Kevin Roberts’ defense of Tucker Carlson platforming white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Moore served for more than a decade as a fellow at one of the largest right-of-center think tanks in Washington, DC, yet didn’t reference the internal revolt over Roberts’ embrace of Carlson or subsequent apology for his choice of words — though sources told The Post the economist was facing pressure to depart.
“After 12 happy and productive years, I have decided to resign my position as senior visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation in order to concentrate my work load on continuing to build up @Comm4Prosperity [Committee to Unleash Prosperity] and the mounting influence of our daily Hotline,” Moore posted on X.
He then quoted Roberts’ predecessor as Heritage boss: “As Ed Feulner would say: ‘onward.’”
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity co-founder had been asked by donors to that group to leave Heritage, one source familiar with Moore’s exit told The Post.
Moore’s wife, Anne, had also proclaimed in a since-deleted tweet that Roberts didn’t deserve “a second chance” and that her “husband will be submitting his resignation.”
Anne Moore has since taken down her X account.
“When you fail to do the right thing in the first place from such a place of privilege, you don’t get a second chance,” Anne Moore wrote a little after 8 a.m. Thursday, in response to a post from former “The View” co-host Meghan McCain. “My husband will be submitting his resignation after twelve meaningful years at Heritage.”
Moore, a senior economic adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign and key architect of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
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You go, Steve!
Good for him!
Friends:
After 12 happy and productive years, I have decided to resign my position as senior visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation in order to concentrate my work load on continuing to build up @Comm4Prosperity and the mounting influence of our daily Hotline.
As Ed Feulner would say: “onward.” — Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) November 6, 2025
Wife:
“such a place of privilege”
She sounds like a wacko leftist....
How is it a place of privilege? There is nothing privileged about not being able to express an opinion.
Steven is expressing his opinion...er...his wife is.
Steven is obedient anyway. LOL
Say what?
Think of it as “a place of privilege and/or responsibility.”
I’m told Fuentes is an FBI plant. He was at Jan 6th rally and encouraged protesters and got off light.
Sadly, Reagan would not have recognized the Heritage Foundation of today.
Moore’s wife #2 speaks fluent leftist.
He better obey her or he may have to start looking for wife #3.
Lol.
If they wanted someone to split the MAGA Coalition, they couldn’t have picked anyone better than Fuentes.
“Reagan would not have recognized the Heritage Foundation of today.”
Your post is accurate—though we almost certainly disagree on whether that is a good or bad thing.
Of course Reagan would not have recognized American large cities or the Democrat Party of today.
Folks here assure us that Fuentes is an idiot—so obviously no threat to anyone.
Lol.
Yet another example of Ticker's facile dishonesty.
Carlson likes Fuentes—at least this month.
This is no mystery or secrecy here.
If you listened to the interview you would know that.
It was there right off the bat:
“I thought you were a fed.”
“I thought you were a fed.”
Another fake with some high paying do-nothing job at a foundation, or a nonprofit.
I despise both of them, which makes sense.
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” Lenin (?)
Same way they took out the Tea Party. We still here though. It’s always been like herding cats.
“Carlson is way too smart to not understand the difference between “cancelling” someone, and simply not choosing to give that person your own show as a platform.”
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The former Fox News host has since said one reason for having Fuentes, 27, on his show is that he’s “the most influential voice for men under 30 in the United States.”
The former Fox News host has since said he welcomed Fuentes to discuss his “semi-coherent” views because “basically, in the end I decided, Nick Fuentes can’t be canceled.”
Tucker recognizes that canceling Fuentes is like canceling almost all conservative Gen Z men among whom he is greatly popular. Ignoring him wasn’t working. Fuentes just continues to get more popular especially with that age group and like Tucker says “Nick Fuentes can’t be canceled.”
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