Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

Landon Caeli said:

Yes, Fuentes has appeared on other people's podcasts, which are popular. But
It says nothing about Fuentes having an increased fan base of his own.

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That might possibly be devastating to someone who had made such a claim. As it is, the claim I made is substantiated.

Civil war underway as GOP struggles to 'expel the lunatics': analysis​

“One faction, led by Jewish conservatives and Christian Zionists like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, accuses Roberts [Heritage] of coddling an antisemite [Fuentes]. Another prefers a ‘no enemies to the right’ approach, which mirrors the language that Roberts used in his video,” reports Jones. “There have been prominent resignations, a contentious town hall at Heritage, and denunciations of various sorts. Throughout it all, the groypers cavort. The Establishment right, which they despise, may be ripe for implosion at last.”

Jones said the Roberts video arrived at a contentious moment for American conservatives. The post-Trump trajectory of the right “is not yet assured, and the movement is consumed by questions of succession, ideology, and strategy.”

“To many, like Roberts, the furthest-right fringe is more palatable than liberalism or the neoconservatism that preceded the Obama years. Only an alliance of the most radical tendencies on the right can transform the nation for decades to come, or so the logic goes,” she wrote.

“The boundaries that he set forth, William Buckley, in the early 1960s, were twofold,” [conservative scholar] Rector said. “You have to expunge all antisemitism, all of it. But that’s just part of it … the other is you have to expel the lunatics.”

“... Yet the right’s eternal patience with antisemitism, and all other forms of racism and misogyny and queer hatred, are precisely what brought us here,” said Jones. “And so, despite all the heat, the board of Heritage is siding with Roberts for now.”

Glenn Beck attempts to patiently explain to his rightwing fans that Hitler was bad.

The idea that Adolf Hitler was some misunderstood or even "good" figure while Winston Churchill was the real WWII villain was once confined to the extreme fringes and unknown to almost everyone else. Today, however, the idea has resurfaced with disturbing visibility — no longer limited to neo-Nazi forums but now defended or entertained on major podcasts, viral social-media threads, and platforms with tens of millions of listeners and viewers.

Glenn Beck, a lover of history and collector of historical artifacts, is appalled that this revisionist narrative is being taken seriously.

“I really don't get it. History, real history, is not a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. It's ink on paper, orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies. It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened,” he says.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn sets the record straight about Hitler, Churchill, and WWII.

Trump-backed candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sounds alarm on rising MAGA racism in NYT op-ed​

now he's running for governor of Ohio on a MAGA platform.

But his Indian-American heritage has become a huge target for attack in right-wing circles — and on Wednesday, he released a New York Times op-ed warning that this rising racism is on the brink of tearing the conservative movement apart.

"Americanness isn’t a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry. It’s binary: Either you’re an American or you’re not. You are an American if you believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream, and if you are a citizen who swears exclusive allegiance to our nation," wrote Ramaswamy.

The problem, he warned, is that a growing contingent of right-wing activists and strategists no longer believe this, and instead subscribe to an "identitarian" vision of America based on ancestry and ethnicity, where outsiders don't belong.

"Older Republicans who may doubt the rising prevalence of the blood-and-soil view should think again. My social media feeds are littered with hundreds of slurs ... and calls to deport me 'back to India' (I was born and raised in Cincinnati and have never resided outside the U.S.)."

[I note that many conservative voices in these very own forums have been aggressively pushing this identitarian vision, if not about Ramaswamy in particular.]

essentialsaltes said:

Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.​

Fuentes – who is the at the heart of the ideological civil war currently consuming the influential conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — is a known Holocaust denier who regularly demeans racial minorities and has called for the "death penalty" against Jewish people and practitioners of all non-Christian faiths.

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Two More Heritage Foundation Board Members Resign Amid Tucker-Fuentes Fallout​

Shane McCullar and Abby Spencer Moffat, resigned on Tuesday, citing concerns over Heritage’s direction and approach to combating anti-Semitism.

[McCullar]: No institution that hesitates to condemn antisemitism and hatred—or that gives a platform to those who spread them—can credibly claim to uphold the vision that once made the Heritage Foundation the world’s most respected conservative think tank. And, I cannot, in good conscience, remain on a board that is unwilling to confront the lapses in judgment that have harmed its credibility, its culture, and the conservative movement it once helped shape.

[Moffat]: Heritage’s handling of recent challenges reveals a drift from the principles that once defined its leadership. When an institution hesitates to confront harmful ideas and allows lapses in judgment to stand, it forfeits the moral authority on which its influence depends.