NAZIS ARE BAD: Heritage Foundation Staffers Subtweet Their Boss Over His Defense of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes

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Some Heritage Foundation staffers are speaking up about a controversial video its president, Kevin Roberts, released on Thursday.

After Tucker Carlson released his friendly interview of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, there were calls for Heritage, which has made a show of allying itself with Carlson, to disavow the former Fox News host.

Instead, Roberts released a video defending both Carlson and Fuentes.

“We will always defend truth, we will always defend America, and we will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains – and as I have said before, always will be – a close friend of the Heritage Foundation. The venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail,” declared Roberts. “The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right. I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either. When we disagree with a person’s thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate, and we have seen success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left.”

Some Heritage employees are not being shy about expressing their disagreement with Roberts’s sentiments.

“NAZIS ARE BAD,” read the caption on a meme shared by Heritage research fellow Preston Brashers.

Richard Stern, the director of Heritage’s economic policy institute and federal budget center, retweeted Brashers and added that it was “Evidently, a truth that is never more than one generation away from being forgotten.”

Brashers’ tweet was also shared by Heritage staffers Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and John Peluso.

Bedrick also retweeted a post from The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry, submitting that “The Pagan Right’s call for ‘unity’ is the call of a murderer demanding his victim stop struggling.”

Another Heritage director, Jay Richards, did not directly subtweet his boss, but did express his disagreement with his argument prior to the release of Roberts’s video.

“Almost seems like it’s a coordinated effort to destroy the conservative coalition. And even if it’s not coordinated, the effect is the same,” mused Richards in response to another anti-Carlson/Fuentes post from Berry.

The posts from Heritage staffers were supplemented by those from many others on the political right:

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