{"id":45983,"date":"2025-11-18T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=45983"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:16:05","slug":"the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=45983","title":{"rendered":"The fall of the Heritage Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. I will start off by saying that I haven\u2019t been paying to much attention to the Heritage Foundation. I know they are one of the main conservative think tanks in Washington and have come up with any number of excellent ideas for the Republican Party. This is why I wasn\u2019t expecting the virtual collapse of the foundation.<\/p>\n


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This all started over a podcast by Tucker Carlson. Years ago, Carlson was one of the most popular commentators on Fox. Then, back in 2023, Carlson was basically fired. I wrote about it at the time<\/a>, commenting that it was a really bad idea. I had watched Carlson\u2019s show a few times. He seemed to say things generally that I agreed with.<\/p>\n

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When he left Fox, he started his own podcast and it took off. I don\u2019t recall if I watched the early shows or not, but I don\u2019t believe I did. It appears that I made the correct choice. Recently, Carlson started showing that he was anti-Israel. Then came an interview with some clown named Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n

Prior to all of this going down, I had never heard of Fuentes and know noting about him. It seems that this clown is is an anti-Semite. Again, I didn\u2019t watch the interview, but from what I\u2019ve been reading, Fuentes went full Neo-Nazi\/White Supremacist.<\/p>\n

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As I\u2019ve said, I didn\u2019t watch the interview, but apparently, Carlson didn\u2019t press Fuentes of his idiocy. Again, I don\u2019t know any of the particulars and I\u2019m not going to bother reviewing the video on YouTube. It does appear that a lot of people were very upset with Carlson providing this David Duke clone a platform to spew his garbage.<\/p>\n

This is where things go off the rails with the Heritage Foundation. The President of the Foundation, (For now), Kevin Roberts, apparently is a friend of Tucker Carlson and he has been defending him. This has led to an internal civil war within the foundation with people demanding Roberts resignation and many groups disassociating themselves from Roberts and the Heritage Foundation. Here are some of the details from Newsmax<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The conservative policy world was again rocked Thursday, November 6th<\/sup>, as the Heritage Foundation’s marquee affinity group to fight antisemitism \u2014 the National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism (NTFCA), also known as Project Esther \u2014 announced it is breaking formally from Heritage. <\/b><\/p>\n

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The announcement comes amid a widening controversy over Heritage President Kevin Roberts’ handling of the Tucker Carlson\u2013Nick Fuentes interview, and a surge of resignations from the task force by members who say the institution has failed to hold Roberts or Heritage sufficiently accountable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is, apparently a major group that has decided to dissociate themselves from the Heritage Foundation. It also seems that a number of people working at the Heritage Foundation are furious with Roberts and demanding that Roberts resign or be fired. Here are those details from the New York Post<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Internal chats reviewed by The Post show high-ranking members of the Heritage Foundation told each other privately how \u201cembarrassed\u201d and \u201cdisgusted\u201d they were by Kevin Roberts\u2019 \u201cridiculous\u201d decision<\/a> to come to Carlson\u2019s defense over the sitdown with Fuentes, 27, who has expressed antisemitic views and denied that the Holocaust<\/a> happened. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disgusted by this and don\u2019t understand how this premeditated and orchestrated response could come out of one of the biggest think tanks in the world,\u201d one wrote. <\/b><\/p>\n

Another declared the incident was \u201cthe most embarrassed I\u2019ve ever been to be a Heritage employee. It\u2019s not close.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

When Carlson had Fuentes on his show, it appears he was giving him a platform with a large following. It also appears that Carlson himself is not a fan of Israel and has nothing but contempt for Christians who support Israel. What has been happening is that a lot of people in the MAGA and Conservative movements have been blasting Carlson and the Fuentes interview may have been the last straw.<\/p>\n

In Carlson\u2019s two-hour interview, which has racked up more than 17 million views on X, Fuentes called himself \u201ca fan\u201d of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and denounced the influence of \u201corganized Jewry\u201d in US politics, while Carlson accused American Christians who support the state of Israel of being heretics with a \u201cbrain virus.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Yeah, that was an amazingly stupid thing to say and if Tucker Carlson actually believes that garbage, he should be put on ignore by everyone. This is what appears to have set off Roberts.<\/p>\n

Roberts, 51, released a video statement<\/a> Oct. 30, three days after the Carlson-Fuentes interview was posted, condemning efforts by movement conservatives aimed at \u201ccanceling our own people.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else\u2019s agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains, and as I have said before, always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation,\u201d declared Roberts, whose statement has more than 23 million views on X. \u201cThe venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI disagree with and even abhor things that Nick Fuentes said,\u201d added Roberts, \u201cbut canceling him is not the answer either.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Perhaps Kevin Roberts should review just what it means to be canceled. It means that there is a systemic move to remove someone from the internet, and completely destroy them. People doing the canceling will try and get people fired, their bank accounts closed and generally turned int a nonperson. That isn\u2019t what is happening here.<\/p>\n

What is happening is that people are walking away from Tucker Carlson and simply not associating with him. They aren\u2019t calling for Elon Musk to boot him off TwitterX, they aren\u2019t demanding he be jailed or censored. If Carlson wants to spew hate, he can do so. We just won\u2019t listen to him of have anything to do with him. That isn\u2019t canceling someone.<\/p>\n

The ripple effect from Roberts\u2019 statement has gone beyond staff issues, with sources close to the think tank saying that it has been \u201chemorrhaging\u201d evangelical Christian and Jewish contributors. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is ridiculous, on the one hand, KDR [Roberts] says that we can\u2019t \u2018cancel our own people,\u2019 referring to Tucker and Fuentes, when, on the other hand, he literally cancelled the Boston College Republicans by calling them a bunch of \u2018soft men<\/a>\u2018 to whom the future doesn\u2019t belong,\u201d one Heritage staffer said in the private chat group. <\/b><\/p>\n

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As I\u2019ve mentioned, I don\u2019t really follow the Heritage Foundation. I may read something they publish if it shows up in my newsfeeds. I also don\u2019t follow Tucker Carlson, and if what I\u2019m reading is accurate, I don\u2019t think I will be anytime soon. It sounds like he\u2019s decided to follow Candice Owens off the same cliff and begin his march into irrelevancy.<\/p>\n

Sources close to the foundation reported that George had been reaching out to fellow board members to gain support for ousting Roberts late last week, with one person saying that the president\u2019s defenders \u201cbarely saved his bacon here.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

I suspect that once the donations and other income sources start drying up, and the reason is Roberts big mouth, he will be invited to seek other opportunities elsewhere.<\/p>\n

According to a March 2025 Pew Research poll<\/a>, 72% of white evangelical Protestants in the US have a favorable view of Israel, while 57% of all American Protestants support Israel along with 73% of American Jews. <\/b>The same survey found majorities of US Muslims (81%), religiously unaffiliated Americans (69%), and US Catholics (53%) have unfavorable views of Israel, along with half of white non-evangelical Protestants. <\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not surprised at all about the Muslims not liking Israel. After all, they have repeatedly tried to wipe the nation off the map and slaughter all the Jews living there. I am surprises about the percentage of Catholics. I think I need to see how the questions were worded. They might have been \u201cWeighted\u201d a bit. Apparently, there is a growing segment of the GOP that is moving against Israel.<\/p>\n

GOP lawmakers and commentators who convened in Las Vegas this past weekend for the Republican Jewish Coalition\u2019s Leadership Summit called out the alarming rise of anti-Israel and antisemitic views in their coalition. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last six months, I\u2019ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have in my entire life. This is a poison, and I believe we are facing an existential crisis in our party and in our country,\u201d said Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-Texas) Friday night. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cNow is the time for choosing, now is the time for courage,\u201d Cruz added in an address that referenced other guests on Carlson\u2019s podcast who have downplayed Nazi atrocities and the Holocaust. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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I have made no secret of my support for Israel. I will continue to do so. What happened on October 7th<\/sup>, 2023 should have been a wake up call. Instead, we have discovered that far to many people are all in on destroying Israel and, yes I will say it, instituting a second Holocaust.<\/p>\n

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I, for one, will not tolerate that crap. My late father was in the 3rd<\/sup> Army, European Theater of Operations. He saw first hand what the Nazi scum did at a place called Dachau<\/a>. He made sure that we all knew what he saw. When the epic documentary series, The World at War<\/a>, was broadcast, we all sat down to watch it every week. When the part on the Nazi Final Solution<\/a> was shown, my father sat us down and explained what he saw.<\/p>\n

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Now, as to what should be done with Kevin Roberts? He has jumped the shark. He is now a detriment to the Heritage Foundation and he needs to go. If he isn\u2019t invited to leave or won\u2019t resign, I don\u2019t see the Heritage Foundation lasting to much longer in it\u2019s current form. All the Republican power brokers and politicians will simply become unavailable. When the donors stop writing checks, it won\u2019t be long before the doors close. We shall see what happens next.<\/p>\n

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