Dana Al Kurd

I mean, you attack me constantly.

Conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington.

The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians.

And we won't start doing that now.

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.

Most importantly, 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.

It would not invite him to a Heritage event or to my show, but the point is we have to find other avenues to engage the ridiculous ideas that he's saying, rather than, as many people have called for online—

that you can just shun him, that you can just ignore him and that the problem goes away.

My motivation for posting that video yesterday, especially looking ahead towards 2026 and 2028, is that we have to engage those issues if we want to build a movement.

I understand that particularly for our Jewish friends who ought to be upset about Fuentes' comments about anti-Semitism, that he's just anathema.

I agree with that as well.

But if we're going to actually correct the scourge of anti-Semitism, we've got to go convince those, unfortunately, millions of young men who find that appealing.

I do believe that they're convincible.