Several staff members of the Heritage Foundation took to X today to protest their own boss's defense of a recent softball interview by Tucker Carlson with avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
Kevin Roberts, president of the foundation, has sparked widespread criticism for standing with Carlson while droves of conservatives attacked his controversial video.
"After Carlson released his friendly interview of white nationalist Fuentes, there were calls for Heritage, which has made a show of allying itself with Carlson, to disavow the former Fox News host," Mediaite reported. "Instead, Roberts released a video defending both Carlson and Fuentes."
Roberts described Carlson as a "close friend of the Heritage Foundation" and called out his critics as "bad actors," adding that "the venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail."
It did not fail to garner astonishing public rebukes of Roberts' statement from his own employees.
"NAZIS ARE BAD" proclaimed Preston Brashers, Heritage tax policy research fellow, below a meme.
Brashers's post was retweeted by fellow Heritage staffers Richard Stern, Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and John Peluso, Mediate reported.
Stern, director of Heritage’s economic policy institute and federal budget center, added that it was “Evidently, a truth that is never more than one generation away from being forgotten.”
Bedrick also retweeted a post from The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry, submitting that “The Pagan Right’s call for ‘unity’ is the call of a murderer demanding his victim stop struggling,” Mediate reported.
Since the Mediate piece was posted, Brashers has continued his storm of posts, noting:
"There are some who just don't know what Fuentes is all about - including people who watched Tucker's 2 hour pattycake session with him. This is a small sampling of the cesspool. The problem isn't so much that Tucker did the interview but how he did it."