Republicans have a Nazi problem

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What recent events sparked the discussion about Republicans and Nazism?

Unknown 0:00
Only three weeks ago, after the Young Republicans' I Love Hitler group chat, we asked this question. Coming up, do the Republicans have a Nazi problem? Could have ended there, guys. But then Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes.
Noel King 0:15
I'm sorry I called you gay, by the way. Why aren't people married? Well, I mean, honestly, it's the women. It's the women.
Unknown 0:22
Fuentes, a proud anti-Semite, said stuff that people thought Tucker would disavow. Tucker didn't.
Noel King 0:28
You're a fan of Stalin's?

How did Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes impact the conversation?

Noel King 0:30
I was an admirer.
Unknown 0:31
Next up, the Heritage Foundation shit the bed.
Noel King 0:33
Christians can critique the state of Israel without being anti-Semitic.
Unknown 0:37
Vice President J.D. Just Kids Vance got weirdly quiet. Ben Shapiro got enraged. Chris Ruffo tried to spin it.
Nick Fuentes 0:42
Nick Fuentes is not a Nazi. He's using the symbols of Nazism to drive controversy and then to increase his kind of attention and notoriety.
Unknown 0:54
Oh, OK. Coming up on Today Explained, yeah, Republicans have a Nazi problem.
Noel King 1:00
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What was the reaction from the Heritage Foundation regarding the interview?

Noel King 1:30
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Unknown 2:24
I'm Noelle King with Jonah Goldberg. Jonah writes at The Dispatch. He is famously a never-Trump Republican. He's a Reagan guy, but he remains plugged into conservative circles. So we asked him about the right-on-right violence that erupted after Tucker's interview and who is involved here.
Jonah Goldberg 2:42
One is an institution, the Heritage Foundation, a storied think tank in Washington that's over a half century old. Second is the president of the Heritage Foundation, a guy named Kevin Roberts, who has moved it in a very populist, very Trump-aligned direction over the last few years. Illegal immigrants waving their country's flags in our city streets and they're not being arrested and sent home.
Unknown 3:11
It's unacceptable.
Jonah Goldberg 3:13
And then there's Tucker Carlson, a guy I've known for more than 30 years, used to be a colleague at Fox, who after being fired from Fox has launched his own independent media thing on the web. and is doing strange things.
Noel King 3:29
It's always the obvious questions that are so vigorously discouraged. And one of the questions that's been the most discouraged over the past 30 years are what are those lines in the sky that you see trailing jets?
Jonah Goldberg 3:43
What is that? Some people call them chemtrails. And then lastly is this really horrible gargoyle of a human being named Nick Fuentes. Sorry, I just, I try very hard not to think about the guy. He's a leader of a group of mostly alienated, angry young men that in internet parlance or in social media parlance, people tend to call gripers. He has made a real impact out there for saying the most horrendous things you can say in many respects. We are done with the Jewish oligarchy.
Noel King 4:23
We are done with the slavish surrender to Israel, the Holocaust religion and propaganda. You know it. I know it.
Jonah Goldberg 4:32
But he was one of the guys from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He does not dispute being called a neo-Nazi. And so maybe because I have like the most Jewy name, this side of Shlomo Abramowitz, you might not be surprised that I don't feel like I can be in the same coalition as someone like a Nick Fuentes.

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