By Gregg Roman | MEF | Oct 30, 2025
Kevin Roberts speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Kevin Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
The Heritage Foundation has been a pillar of conservative thought for nearly five decades. Its scholars have shaped policy, defended freedom, and provided the intellectual ammunition for countless conservative victories. I’ve long admired their work and continue to support many of their initiatives, including important elements of Project 2025.
That’s precisely why Kevin Roberts’ recent video defense of Tucker Carlson is so deeply troubling. It doesn’t represent the best of Heritage—it represents a dangerous departure from the moral clarity that institution has historically embodied.
Roberts defended Carlson’s friendly, two-hour interview with Nick Fuentes, America’s most prominent Holocaust denier. In doing so, he crossed a line that should never be crossed, no matter one’s views on foreign policy, Israel, or any other legitimate policy debate.
The Distinction That Matters
Let me be absolutely clear: Vigorous debate about Israel is not only acceptable—it’s essential. I’ve spent decades engaging with thoughtful critics who question Israeli policies, the extent of American aid, or the strategic value of the alliance. Some of my most productive discussions have been with those who fundamentally disagree with my positions. Roberts himself is entirely within bounds to argue that American support for any ally should be conditional on American interests.
But there’s a canyon-wide difference between policy criticism and platforming someone who denies the Holocaust occurred, celebrates Hitler’s birthday, and believes Jews are conspiring to destroy America.
Nick Fuentes isn’t a foreign policy realist or a fiscal hawk questioning aid packages. He’s a white nationalist who admires Adolf Hitler and spreads conspiracy theories about Jewish control. During his interview with Carlson, he claimed Ben Shapiro tried to destroy him for asking “reasonable questions.” He told Carlson he admires Stalin. He portrayed himself as a victim while building a movement that actively harasses Jewish conservatives.
Bill Kristol said, “if i lived n NYC, I’d vote for Mamdani”
Really? He’d be living in a crummy rent stabilized apartment, taking mass transit (half price with the senior discount, $1.45 a ride, free transfers, $17 a week cap), using free city child care, government run grocery stores (instead of ubiquitous Amazon-owned Whole Foods gourmet mega-supermarkets), paying higher taxes, worrying about physical safety, especially as the recognizable Jewish founder of the Neo-Conservative movement, however long defunct now a standard bloodlibel? He’d vote for an anti-semitic, anti-American, Marxist-Jihadist terror sympathizer? I’ve known he was out to lunch for at least the last 25 years but does he have dementia or does he suffer from what I call, “The Excessive Empathy Syndrome” or “The False Equivalence Syndrome”? Also commonly mislabeled, “Tikkun Olam”. He must mean if he were a completely different person, in every possible way. 😀 At least he’s a former Republican. This is where never-Trumperism, TDS, Syndrome often leads.
Kumbaya y’all.
https://www.jns.org/kristol-backs-mamdani-heritage-head-defends-carlson-fuentes/
See my comment in the Vance posting… This man is another piece of “dead meat”.
Even the Heritage Foundation…