Dec. 18 is an “important date” for Nick Fuentes.
“That’s Joseph Stalin’s birthday,” Fuentes said in a podcast with Tucker Carlson released Oct. 27. “I’m a fan.”
“You’re a fan of Stalin’s?” Carlson asked.
“Always an admirer,” Fuentes replied.
“We’ll circle back to that,” Carlson said. He never did.
That moment represents much of Carlson’s friendly interview with Fuentes. The avowed Stalin and Hitler apologist called “organized Jewry” the “big challenge” to unifying the country and blamed “these Zionist Jews” for thwarting the American right’s political success.
Many of my fellow Hillsdale students — including some friends — listen to Tucker Carlson regularly. They tell me they appreciate how he challenges longtime, “establishment” conservative positions, such as U.S. aid to Israel. Carlson is entitled to free speech protected by the First Amendment, and no conservative I know is calling for his podcast to be taken down from YouTube. But, after this interview, he doesn’t deserve your trust or a place in the conservative movement.
The best way to deal with bad ideas is to challenge them with hard questions and better arguments. But Carlson failed to do either. What kind of interviewer doesn’t offer a follow-up to “I admire Stalin”?
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