The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board issued a searing rebuke of the "political poison" metastasizing on the "new right" after one of MAGA's biggest media voices interviewed an avowed antisemite.
Last week, Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes on Carlson's popular show on X. Throughout the interview, Fuentes made salacious and antisemitic comments about popular right-wing Jewish commentators like Josh Hammer, Mark Levin, and Ben Shapiro. He also claimed to be a fan of Joseph Stalin, who is known for murdering millions of his people and creating the mass starvation event in Ukraine known as the Holodomor.
After the interview, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defended Carlson for interviewing Fuentes. Roberts posted a video on X claiming that "cancelling Nick Fuentes is not the answer," and the Republican voters expect them to instead focus on defeating Democrats at the ballot box.
The Wall Street Journal's editors argued in a new editorial on Sunday that Roberts' response to Carlson's interview is an example of "political poison" frowning on the "new right."
"An old political poison is growing on the new right, led by podcasters and internet opportunists who are preoccupied with the Jews," the editorial board argued. "It is spreading wider and faster than we thought."
"If conservatives—and Republicans—don’t call out this poison in their own ranks before it corrupts more young minds, the right and America are entering dangerous territory," the editorial continued.