Tuesday, November 04, 2025

THE NEW YORK POST THINKS THE NAZI FIGHT IN THE GOP IS ALARMING. RESPONSE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?

There's a Nazi crisis in the GOP, and the New York Post is taking it seriously:
One of the largest conservative think tanks in Washington, DC, has been roiled by its president’s embrace of Tucker Carlson after the conservative podcaster hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his show, prompting an outcry from senior staff.

Internal chats reviewed by The Post show high-ranking members of the Heritage Foundation told each other privately how “embarrassed” and “disgusted” they were by Kevin Roberts’ “ridiculous” decision to come to Carlson’s defense over the sitdown with Fuentes....

In Carlson’s two-hour interview, which has racked up more than 17 million views on X, Fuentes called himself “a fan” of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and denounced the influence of “organized Jewry” in US politics, while Carlson accused American Christians who support the state of Israel of being heretics with a “brain virus.”

Roberts, 51, released a video statement Oct. 30, three days after the Carlson-Fuentes interview was posted, condemning efforts by movement conservatives aimed at “canceling our own people.” ...

The ripple effect from Roberts’ statement has gone beyond staff issues, with sources close to the think tank saying that it has been “hemorrhaging” evangelical Christian and Jewish contributors....
We're told that Princeton's Robert P. George, an influential Heritage board member, has tried to oust Kevin Roberts as president.

But the take on this story at The New York Times is: Republican officeholders reassure us that there's nothing to see here.
Republican lawmakers and influencers continued on Monday to distance themselves from Tucker Carlson after his sympathetic interview with the prominent white supremacist Nick Fuentes....

On Capitol Hill, Republicans were quick to disavow antisemitism and declare unbending support for Israel....

“There’s already the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel, and is OK with antisemitism,” Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, said in an interview. “We’ve got to be very clear we don’t support antisemitism and we do support Israel.” ...

“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend....
For years, the Republican Party has embraced greater and greater degrees of extremism, but the press has continued to turn to soft-spoken Republican Senate and House leaders who reassure the journalistic establishment that the party is full of fine, moderate fellows who'd never do anything out of bounds. That's worked for so long that we now have a White House full of extremist freaks tearing away at the foundations of our democracy and the Republican Party still isn't seen as significantly more extreme than the Democratic Party.

The Times story briefly mentions the fact that the rot extends to the vice president's office, then drops that subject quickly.
When a cache of leaked antisemitic, misogynistic and other bigoted texts that circulated among a group of Republican operatives recently surfaced, Vice President JD Vance ridiculed the outraged reaction as “pearl clutching.”

But others, including Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, have argued that Republicans must rid their movement of such viewpoints. Mr. Cruz has positioned himself as one of the party’s loudest voices denouncing antisemitism and appeared especially eager for a hand-to-hand fight with Mr. Carlson.
Vance is one blocked presidential artery away from the Oval Office. Cruz isn't. But the story never mentions Vance again.

And there appears to be nothing in the Times about the racist reaction to this innocuous tweet:



This is not an isolated incident:
During the recent Diwali period, FBI Director Kash Patel ... posted on X: “Happy Diwali — celebrating the Festival of Lights around the world, as good triumphs over evil.”

Among the many hateful comments he received were:

* “Reject this false religion’s Diwali nonsense. Hinduism is idolatry, not truth.”

* "Dude we are a Christian nation. Assimilate or leave.”

* And a popular comment, whose visibility has been limited by X: “I’ve seen that one. Is that the festival where they all s**t in the street?”
There was at least one fecal response to Ramaswamy's tweet as well:


But to the mainstream media, this racism doesn't exist. Republican rank-and-file voters are Carhartt-wearing Real Americans who drive pickup trucks and have dirt under their fingernails from long days of honest labor. They're noble -- and Democratic voters aren't.

Nick Fuentes could be the future of the GOP. Even if he isn't, opposition to religious pluralism probably is the future, even if many non-Christians are potential Republican voters (or actual Republican candidates or top aides). But the mainstream press might continue to tell us that everything is fine.
Posted by Steve M. at 12:54 PM

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