The Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts is walking back his defense of Tucker Carlson.

Carlson caused a major stir on the right last week when he decided to interview Nick Fuentes, a known white supremacist and Hitler fan. The interview was immediately flamed by conservative Jews, who condemned the ex–Fox News host’s decision to elevate Fuentes’s talking points.

Despite the opposition, Roberts released a video on X Thursday in support of Carlson and Fuentes, noting that while he disagreed with Fuentes’s beliefs, he did not believe that the “venomous” coalition “cancelling” the Christian nationalist Holocaust-denier had an appropriate reaction to the interview.

Since then, the Heritage Foundation has been embroiled in internal controversy, with at least one staffer exiting the institution over the mess. Roberts addressed the schism Wednesday.

“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” the conservative think tank’s president told employees at an all-staff meeting, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It’s weirdly satisfying watching the right fracture. Being on the left, we fracture over the most trivial and academic points despite being the party of solidarity and mass power. I hope we can grow the current excitement and victory into something notable.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      21·
      8 hours ago

      The main fracturing on the left is primarily caused by ideological purists (aka tankies), who refuse to even consider that going from current capitalist systems to communism doesn’t happen at the flip of a switch and we need to slowly but surely push for more and more progress towards it. Mind you the same people in the same breath will go on and praise authoritarian, state-capitalist systems as if they’re an example to follow, so…

      Ideological debate should always be welcome when relevant and not detrimental to the goal. After all, everyone’s perspective is different and mutual understanding is a must for mutual respect. Even if we disagree on topics, debating them with logical reasoning is the way, and while that might look like fracturing, it’s still a much better option than, say, pooling behind a child rapist mango with pubes on top of it, just to appear united.