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Yes,
former Fox News host Tucker Carlson frequently criticizes and attacks wealthy
people and elites in his commentary. He uses populist rhetoric to focus on
economic inequality, the influence of the ruling class, and the struggles of
the working and middle classes.
Key
examples of his attacks include:
Criticism
of "elites": Carlson often frames societal problems as the fault of a
disconnected and out-of-touch "ruling class" or "Georgetown
élite".
Targeting
specific billionaires: He has made personal attacks on billionaires like Bill
Ackman and figures such as Bari Weiss, questioning their intelligence and
influence.
Focus on
economic issues: Carlson emphasizes how financial pressures, such as credit
card debt and the inability to afford a house, are the "biggest cause of
human suffering" for many Americans, which he blames on systemic issues
and elite negligence.
Challenging
the wealthy on taxes: In a leaked 2019 interview with historian Rutger Bregman,
Carlson initially seemed to agree with the idea that the wealthy need to face
higher taxes, criticizing "billionaires flying private" on
carbon-spewing planes while discussing climate change.
His
commentary on these topics has resonated with a wide audience, leading to
debates across the political spectrum about whether his "class
politics" are genuine or a "fraudulent" form of populism.
Remembering 1 month ago:
Tucker Carlson’s interview with far-right
antisemite Nick Fuentes divides conservatives
This article is more than 1 month old
Heritage Foundation defended former Fox News
host, others slammed him for platforming white supremacist
Rachel Leingang
Fri 31 Oct 2025 16.36 GMT
Conservatives are fighting among themselves over
the far-right commentator Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview the
antisemitic white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, where the two men
decried conservatives who support Israel.
Kevin Roberts, the head of the conservative
Heritage Foundation thinktank, defended Carlson after the episode, saying
Carlson “remains and, as I have said before, always will be a close friend of
the Heritage Foundation”.
The response from the prominent thinktank on the
right – the group behind Project 2025, the conservative manifesto that has
guided the Trump administration – has roiled some of its supporters and
deepened a chasm on the right over support of Israel and antisemitism.
On the podcast, Carlson called out Republicans
including Senator Ted Cruz, the former president George W Bush and the
ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for being “Christian Zionists” who have
been “seized by this brain virus”.
“I dislike them more than anybody,” said Carlson,
the former Fox host whose podcast has skewed further to the right during the
second Trump term.
Fuentes – who used to be ostracized by the
mainstream right for his views, including support of Hitler and claims that
Jews run the country – said on the podcast that “organized Jewry” held outsize
influence and said he was a fan of Joseph Stalin.
In remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition
after the podcast aired on Thursday, Cruz said: “Now is a time for choosing.
Now is a time for courage … If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler
was very, very cool and their mission is to combat and defeat ‘global Jewry’,
and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that
evil.”
Cruz also said he had seen more antisemitism on
the right in the last six months than he had seen in his entire life, claiming
it was a “poison” and that the party and the country were “facing an
existential crisis”.
In recent weeks, reporting revealed that a group
chat of young Republicans included a host of antisemitic comments, and texts
revealed a Trump nominee – since withdrawn – who said he had a “Nazi streak”.
Fuentes went further on his views in a video
after the podcast. “Do us all a favor,” he said. “We are done with the Jewish
oligarchy. We are done with the slavish surrender to Israel, the wars, the
foreign aid, the policing of antisemitism, the Holocaust religion and
propaganda.”
In his video response to the podcast and to
speculation that the Heritage Foundation would distance itself from Carlson,
Roberts said that Christians can critique Israel without being antisemitic, and
that conservatives didn’t need to “reflexively support any foreign government,
no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their
mouthpieces in Washington”. He decried any attempts to cancel or silence
Carlson and Fuentes, calling those speaking out against Carlson a “venomous coalition”.
“The American people expect us to be focusing on
our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right,”
Roberts said. “I disagree with, 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.”
Fuentes thanked Roberts for the video in a reply
on X, citing his “courage in standing up for open discourse and defending
Tucker against the Israel First Woke Right”.
The Heritage Foundation did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
The Republican Jewish Coalition’s CEO, Matt
Brooks, told Jewish Insider that Roberts and the Heritage Foundation’s decision
to stand with Carlson left him “appalled, offended and disgusted”.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in
the US Senate, called for people aligned with the Heritage Foundation to
“disavow this dangerous mainstreaming of these hateful ideologies”.
Conservative media have called out Carlson for
giving Fuentes a broader audience and not challenging his views in the
interview. The Washington Free Beacon summed up Roberts’s take in its headline:
“Heritage Foundation President: ‘Don’t Cancel Nick Fuentes,’ as Stalin Fan
Fuentes Tells Jews to ‘Get The F— Out of America’.”
The National Review’s Jim Geraghty wrote:
“Really, Kevin Roberts? You think this twerp is somebody that serious thinkers
of the modern right should spend a lot of time engaging with? You don’t see any
issue with putting the spotlight on this guy and giving him more than two hours
to spew his bullcrap with no pushback?”
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