Tucker Carlson hosting the neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and Kevin Roberts, head of the leading conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, defending Carlson have sparked what some are calling a “civil war” among conservatives.
First of all, as I have shown in my book on the subject, Nazis–that is to say, National Socialists–are no more conservative than Democratic Socialists are. This is true not only politically but theologically, with the Nazi theologians attempting to use the higher criticism of the Bible to purge Christianity of its “Jewish elements” (that is to say, its Biblical content).
Referring to the league of Fuentes supporters, Matt Yglesias says that in this civil war “the groypers are winning.” Noah Rothman, on the other hand, saying that conservatives are overwhelmingly speaking out against the Nazi apologists and their defenders, says “the groypers are losing.”
No political faction can control who votes for them, but is there a way to kick Nazi-sympathizers out of the “big tent” of conservatism? In the same way that William F. Buckley drummed white supremacists and the John Birch Society out of the conservative movement of his day, later giving us Ronald Reagan?
Do the Democrats need a similar reckoning of their own over the anti-semitism and radical extremism in their midst?
Discuss.
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