The Financial Times has reported that Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, which is the most influential conservative think-tank in the United States, is facing an internal revolt after defending Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview Holocaust denier and prominent misogynist Nick Fuentes. That act of indulgence towards outright neo-Nazism has exposed deep cracks in the American right, and that matters.
So, lots of the right really are not fascists and will have nothing to do with fascists. OK. Good to know.
What we are witnessing at Heritage is not a one-off scandal but the implosion of a movement that has lost the ability to distinguish between liberty and license, or between conservatism and fascism.
Roberts has offered an at best half-hearted apology to staff at the Heritage Foundation for his actions, but it is clear that the damage is done, including them. The fa̤ade of discipline that once hid the contradictions within the right Рbetween libertarians and authoritarians, and between oligarchs and populists Рis falling apart. Associates and funders are already fleeing from the Heritage Foundation. Its embrace of deep misogyny and anti-Semitic neo-Nazism is the rock on which it is foundering, and which will break it, but with that, the whole far-right will fall apart.
And this matters here in the UK. The British right, located in Tuforn Street, London SW1, imported neoliberalism from the US wholesale: the think tanks, the slogans, and even the contempt for government. Now it is likely that it, and its spawn, Reform UK, will import the same collapse from the USA.
As the moral vacuum of hate at the core of neoliberalism is exposed, it is clear that it does not offer renewal, but rot. Heritage’s embrace of extremism is the logical endpoint of an ideology that worships power and wealth while claiming to defend freedom. It will tear the right apart. The only question is whether democracy can survive the wreckage it leaves behind.
So neoliberals rejecting fascism shows that neoliberals are fascists.
A libertarian would not forbid the interview of a fascist. A fascist would proscribe any expression of an opinion he thought wrong.
Tucker may well have gone nuts, but to interview a person is not to endorse his opinions, it is to allow others to hear them and make their own minds up.
Tucker is bonkers. He believes a demon clawed his thigh when was in bed. A more plausible explanation might involve the four dogs that always sleep on his bed….
I think this ridiculous fun-sized homosexual is a little short for a stormtrooper.
More interesting is where do Jews go from here? Traditionally, both US parties were in their pockets and the MSM could be trusted to help excommunicate anybody who wondered a bit too loudly about AIPAC. Now they’re unpopular with younger people on both sides, Tiktok is full of Auntie S, and if the keedz aren’t watching Tiny Dancer Fuentes they might well be voting for Commie-Muslim Mandani. Not a great outcome for 2% of the US population.
Can’t blame Tucker Carlson or even one of his flamingly closeted interview subjects for this. Oi tried to warn ye, the IDF ostentatiously beating the shite out of Palestine for 2 years straight was not a good look and did not increase the popularity of Jews. I will always support them in their right to self defense, but to normies who get their news from social media, Israel badly lost the war of international opinion. Looked like the big, mean, bullies who arrested George Floyd. Now Big Donor Jews are hoping to put the Noticing back in the box by cancelling Tucker Carlson a second time. What is this, 2007 again?
Trump is still a strongly pro-Jewish President (his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish and so are some of the best people in his administration) but after him, who in American politics will still turn up for photo ops at the wailing wall? The Right has gone nationalist, so less tolerance for special pleading by dual citizens, more wary of anything that looks like a return of Bushism. But the Left has gone full-on psycho Jew Hate, from the river to the sea. Fuentes is a distraction and an irrelevance because he’s a little homo who’s not going to win election to anything, anywhere. The new, Jew hating foreign mayor of NYC should terrify them, because that’s where the American left is all heading.
Eh. The path NYC takes should make people not so much a fan of communist islamofascism. No, those aren’t contradictions, they fit together.
Though it may take some more elections, since the people who voted for him are the least likely to be able to fit actions to consequences.
Bizzaro world.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-rcna242194
Wut? Former employer’s have duties?
The loser legacy press demands Fox News act like them and go nuts. Fox has no need to follow their stupid lead.
I was watching Fox News Friday night, and they let a CONSERVATIVE speak (OH MY!). Outrageous!
We have talked about the feminisation of society recently, and there’s nothing more feminine than “you’re not allowed to talk to THAT PERSON”. Fuentes is a little turd with bad intentions, so I’m pleased to see him getting scrutiny, that’s the antidote for Fuenteses.
As you say, not only are Fox Carlson’s former employer, they cancelled him years ago. It doesn’t work the second time. The legacy media are desperate to appoint the likes of Fuentes as the leader of the Right, even though he’s an unpopular fringe character who voted for Kamala Harris.
Steve
I would flip this imbeciles point on its head. By their embrace of Hamas the Left is actually going down the National Socialist route. Hamas is a deeply regressive Nazi like movement whose sole purpose is the extermination of Jews and other non – Moslems. By their embrace of such people to me the Left is digging its own grave whatever Hypnoboob’s poll ratings. The question is whether our society can survive.
VP – I never thought I would see an Islamist-friendly Jew-hater elected mayor of New York City, but there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. A third of NYC Jews voted for that creep, apparently.
What’s interesting to me about the Left’s embrace of Gaza is similar to their delight at the murder of Charlie Kirk. They were not rushing to condemn the horror inflicted on innocent Jews on October 7th. Many of them made it clear that’s exactly what they mean by “decolonisation”.
Jung thought Germany was possessed by Wotan, and predicted the sturm und drang animated Little Corporal would lead them to historic disaster. Who or what possesses the postmodern Left? Chuckie? Freddy Krueger?
They can’t all be Nobel prize-winners….
And some of them might even have known they had done so

That they say their was a ‘facade of discipline’ hiding the differences between libertarians and authoritarians, between oligarchs and populists – wait, are the populists the good guys now? – shows they know nothing about the right beyond what they are told by other people who know nothing about the right on Bluesky.
He still claims the right are anti-Semitic neo Nazis – despite knowing Jeremy Corbin?
And there it is – the ebul neoliberals.
Finally, of he doesn’t think Reform will fail, this is just his masturbatory fantasy. He’s gooning out over the idea.
A soothing news outlet for the Potato to watch:
https://kcnawatch.org/korea-central-tv-livestream/
Grikath
I find the KCNA Feed far more sane than the BBC or anything that comes from Murphy.
It’d help if the clown wrote this could get his addresses correct. It’s Tufton St SW1. . It’s not as if it wouldn’t be easy. The Left have had an obsession with what’s been going on at Tufton St & tend to refer to the address rather than sully their lips with the name of the inhabitants. So much for the font of wisdom..
The best bit is that their top hate, the IEA, hasn’t been in Tufton Street for years and their address is no secret.
Institute of Economic Affairs
2 Lord North Street (entrance on Great Peter Street)
Westminster
London
SW1P 3LB
OT, but happy news….
Seems it’s Hatchet Day at the BBC for ….who’da thunk it…. “accessorising the Truth” ….
😀
He thinks Reform is neoliberal?
With that utter lack of understanding of political positions, City University should be ashamed that he was ever a professor in their Department of International Politics.
I see that Anti-Semitism makes you a neo-fascist. Good, because I will never stop repeating what Richard Murphy said and didn’t say in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks.
He never mentioned them. He did though complain the BBC had pulled from the Today programme because of “other” news. A fortnight later he informed us that he had once again been pulled from that programme, “but this time I understand the reasoning”.
I swear to God, whilst some news did merit taking precedence over him, the 7 October attacks did not.