Roger Kimball

Well, a few weeks ago, Kevin Roberts caused a storm when a very short video that he taped was released.

He was supporting Tucker Carlson, saying that heritage is and will always be a friend of Tucker Carlson.

And this caused

Great unhappiness.

Personally, I've written this.

I think that video was ill-judged.

Whoever wrote it, I think I know who wrote it, but I think he should have, as I put it, run a kind of rhetorical Geiger counter over the script of that brief video, because it offended a lot of people.

And I don't think Kevin, who's a friend of mine, has done as well as he might have done in cleaning it up.

That said, the attack on him has been, I think...

really unhinged.

The Wall Street Journal, I've lost count of how many pieces against Kevin they've written.

Initially, I thought it was fine.

Everybody is susceptible to criticism.

Nobody's perfect.

And another friend of mine, Dominic Green, wrote a robust, critical piece about Kevin, I thought.

Although I didn't agree with every single thing he had to say, I thought that was okay.

But then it's just piece after piece after piece.

And it occurred to me that actually the issue is not Kevin Roberts or Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes, as somebody who I only recently became aware of,

The issue is Donald Trump's agenda, the Make America Great Again agenda.

Heritage, under Kevin Roberts, has been pretty closely aligned with that agenda on trade, on foreign policy, on social issues, pretty much across the board.