‘Entering Dangerous Territory’: WSJ Drags Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Heritage Foundation in Scathing Op-Ed

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal published a scathing op-ed on Sunday, attacking white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his supporters, warning that “an old political poison is growing on the new right.”

The piece, titled “The New Right’s New Antisemites,” comes in response to Fuentes’ highly controversial interview with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson last week. The interview triggered a bi-partisan wave of outrage toward Carlson that led some on the right to leap to his defense.

Chief among them was Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, whose video decrying “the venomous coalition attacking” Carlson was given special attention in The Wall Street Journal’s piece.

“Amid criticism on Friday, Mr. Roberts scrambled to list Mr. Fuentes’s odiousness, but his initial contribution was to join in the Jew-baiting,” the board wrote. “His video framed the issue not as antisemitism, but as Christian freedom of conscience in the face of a hostile attempt to impose loyalty to Israel on Americans.”

The WSJ also took issue with Roberts’ claims that those who criticized Carlson’s interview were attempting to “cancel” him.

“Mr. Fuentes has free speech and uses it to fantasize about killing and deporting Jews. Is it now “cancel culture” to criticize Mr. Carlson for treating Mr. Fuentes like a political truth-teller and feeding him softball questions?” wrote the board. “This is a parody of what ‘cancel culture’ meant when the campus left shouted down conservative judges and scholars. Mr. [Ted] Cruz nailed the point when he said Friday that ‘if you say nothing when someone tells you that Adolf Hitler was cool, you are a coward and complicit in evil.'”

The board dragged Roberts as an “apologist” who went against the core principles of conservatism.

“A philosophy of no enemies to the right would cost Republicans elections and endanger the country,” read the piece. “Builders of the conservative movement like Heritage’s Ed Feulner knew that. So did [William] Buckley.”

The WSJ duly hit Carlson, comparing his interview with Fuentes to his viral takedown of Sen. Cruz (R-TX) in June.

“Mr. Carlson’s warm, credulous interview was nothing like his aggressive June episode with Mr. Cruz,” wrote the board. “But it was similar to his treatment of 9/11 truthers and all manner of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists, including the President of Iran, whom he let get away in July with the explanation that ‘Death to America’ really means ‘death to crimes, death to killing and carnage’—in other words, peace.”

The piece closed with a warning to conservatives about the future of the Republican Party.

“If conservatives—and Republicans—don’t call out this poison in their own ranks before it corrupts more young minds, the right and America are entering dangerous territory.”

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