“Not to be too grandiose, but it’s the Spanish Civil War,” Jonah Goldberg, editor of the center-right publication The Dispatch, told Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “It’s previewing the bigger wars to come about what the right is about, who can be tolerated as part of the coalition, and who can’t be.”
The Heritage Foundation got a lot of grief for its association with Tucker, and so Kevin Roberts came out and issued a video statement.
The video utterly backfired and caused a whole firestorm of controversy. And [Roberts] had this whole very high-minded explanation about how we shouldn’t cancel people. What Tucker Carlson had done was basically just give a megaphone to a neo-Nazi.
One of the things that the video revealed was that there are people at Heritage, young people at Heritage who are not neo-Nazis, but they liked Kevin Roberts’ initial statement.