Ben Shapiro Devotes Entire Show to Scorching Takedown of ‘Coward’ Tucker Carlson and ‘Twisted’ Nick Fuentes

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro devoted the entirety of his show on Monday to a scorching takedown of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson.

“Hey folks, I want to do something different on today’s show. We’re going to cover one topic in depth. That topic is, I think, the most important thing happening in the country. It was a hot topic last week, but I wanted to take some time to really gather my thoughts and speak on it in coherent fashion, wholistic fashion. That topic is the fragmentation of the political right,” began Shapiro. “That fragmentation is being caused purposefully by a splinter faction of people led by a young man named Nick Fuentes. They call themselves the Groypers. They are white supremacists. They hate women, Jews, Hindus, many types of Christians, brown people of a wide variety of backgrounds, Blacks, America’s foreign policy, and America’s constitution. They admire Hitler and Stalin. And that splinter faction is now being facilitated and normalized within the mainstream Republican Party. The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor, and a terrible friend. And Tucker Carlson last week was aided, abetted, celebrated for normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party by the mainstay organization of the traditional right, the Heritage Foundation.”

Last week saw a wealth of intra-GOP infighting related to Carlson’s friendly interview of Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s subsequent condemnation of the Carlson’s critics.

Shapiro went on to play a number of the heinous comments made by Fuentes over the years, giving viewers “just a brief glimpse into the twisted mind of Nick Fuentes,” as well as to torch Carlson for “rhetorically fluffing” him.

“Tucker Carlson acts as an ideological launderer for other people’s evils. Tucker Carlson says many inflammatory things, always buying back just enough of it to appear as though he’s not saying what he’s clearly saying. He’s a master of gaslighting. Tucker Carlson, for example, would never say out loud what Nick Fuentes does. He wouldn’t say the things many of his guests say. And so instead, he acts as an ideological wanderer,” submitted Shapiro. “He takes other people’s hideous ideas, he softens them, he treats them with love and care, and then he provides them with a massive signal boost. He isn’t merely talking to people in good faith, of course. He’s promoting certain people and ideas and attacking others. So, for example, he’ll ask a series of wildly obsequious questions to Nick Fuentes. He’ll even let Nick Fuentes’s support for Joseph Stalin slide.”

“But he will grill Ted Cruz about the population of Iran,” continued Shapiro after playing a clip.

Shapiro went on to praise the Heritage Foundations in general, but also to slam its statement on the Carlson-Fuentes interview as “a betrayal of the Heritage Foundation’s history and principles.”

He concluded the show like this:

If Republicans decide to cower before the likes of Neo-Nazis and their propagandizers, they deserve to lose. And they will lose. Neo-Nazis and their propagandizers are not Republicans, they are not America First, they are not MAGA, they sure as hell aren’t conservative. These people aren’t to my right. They are not attached in any way to the fundamental principles of conservatism. And these people have already declared themselves to be my enemies. I’d be a fool not to take them seriously. If they get their way, they will hollow out the Republican Party, lead it to electoral catastrophe, and empty it and the country of any semblance of decency in the process. My answer is no. No to the groypers, no to their publicists like Tucker Carlson, no to those who champion them, no to demoralization, no to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit, no to anti-Americanism. No, this is our country, this is our party, and this is our conservative movement. And I will not stand by while it is handed over to those who betray the most fundamental principles I’ve spent my entire life defending and advocating. That is a path to defeat and a path to moral oblivion. I reject it because if we lose the right, we will lose to the left. And either way, we’ll lose the country.

Watch the full episode above via Ben Shapiro on YouTube.

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