Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson is the “main agent” in “normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party”
“The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor”
The controversy surrounding The Heritage Foundation and Tucker Carlson / Nick Fuentes continues to burn. It appears from people who supposedly have knowledge that the President of Heritage Kevin Roberts survived an attempted ouster and is standing by Tucker though it’s unlikely Heritage will work with him in the future.
But the controversy is not going away. Prior coverage:
- Heritage Foundation Soils Itself, Embraces Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes
- Heritage Trustee: “I will not—I cannot—accept the idea that we have ‘no enemies to the right’”
If anything it’s shifting from Fuentes and Roberts’ statement to Tucker as the focus. Tucker and his supporters are trying to create a narrative that Tucker is a free speech hero (classic crisis management tactic). Some big names, like Megyn Kelly, are standing by him (he will be on stage with her on her tour on November 5) and also pretending it’s just about free speech.
Tucker’s supporters also are asserting this is a backdoor way of attacking JD Vance.
The big influencers claiming criticism of Tucker is a backdoor attack on JD Vance are wrong, but they have convinced me that Operation Protect Tucker is about protecting JD from the inevitable taint of being close to Tucker. Is that why @Heritage @KevinRobertsTX needlessly jumped…
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) November 3, 2025
It’s baffling how Tucker has such a stranglehold on big influencers and podcasters – everyone seems afraid.
But there are even more people speaking out.
I was on Newsmax this morning talking about the Tucker problem:
“There is an influential group who are trying to destroy the MAGA movement, who hate Donald Trump because they think he’s too pro-Israel and he’s too close to Jews. This is really a malicious thing and Tucker Carlson is a major problem. And I wish President Trump, who’s been great on so many things, would speak out about it because Tucker is destroying everything President Trump has achieved because he’s going to end up putting a Democrat back in the White House.”