Vice President JD Vance and conservatives who dismiss the movement’s infighting — including the current battle over the future of the Heritage Foundation — are making a mistake, writes Wall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerard Baker.
In an article posted Monday titled “Vance, Heritage and the Case for Conservative ‘Infighting,'” Baker, the Journal’s former editor-in-chief, argues that the uproar at the Heritage Foundation over its embrace of Tucker Carlson — and Carlson’s praise of white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes — exposes a deeper moral crisis for the conservative movement.
Baker writes: “The ‘infighting’ has been on public display in the struggle unfolding at the Heritage Foundation in the past 10 days after its leader, Kevin Roberts, assertively rebutted suggestions that his institution should distance itself from Tucker Carlson, the leading impresario these days of barroom ideology, after his fawning elevation of Nick Fuentes, the Hitler- and Stalin-admiring antisemitic agitator of the internet.”
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