Great analysis — but the missing player in this whole Fuentes/Carlson/Heritage saga is Elon Musk.
Everything you’re describing is happening inside a system Musk rebuilt from the ground up:
He removed moderation
He reinstated extremists
He monetized virality (outrage = income)
He eliminated transparency so no one can measure the consequences
This is the first major communications platform where one person controls the rules, the moderation, the algorithm, the monetization, and the data — with no outside visibility.
When you combine “no guardrails” + “cash payouts for viral outrage” + “extremists re-platformed” + “zero transparency,” you naturally get a right-wing ecosystem tearing itself apart in public.
Antisemitism is a plague. It should not be automatically assumed that valid criticism of Israeli foreign policy is equated with antisemitism, as it existed long before Israel became a state again. Mislabeling people is not helpful. Labeling at all is risky business. Human rights have only one label.
Jst for the record, Jan 6th was not a riot. A riot is disorganized random violence. Jan 6th was an insurrection, with the goal of overturning a legitimate election.
"There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan" - Groucho Marx
All so strange. I have worked with many people who were ALL MAGA TRUMPERS. Every single one of them hated and denigrated "Jews". Now suddenly they love them???
Thanks for writing on this. I’ve always been puzzled about how these groups coexist together in voting MAGA. It’s a well-known fact that white-nationalists are virulently anti-Semitic yet they vote the same with the misguided groups of evangelicals who insist the rapture or some such hogwash is dependent upon Israel to exist for it to happen.
And Jews who side with the right? I definitely don’t get it.
I guess hate is hate and money is money. Hate and greed will corrode anything from the inside out which is what it seems like we’re witnessing now in this unholy alliance between these disparate groups. It was only a matter of time but has taken longer than I thought to finally manifest.
“Representative Randy Fine, Republican of Florida, went further, calling Mr. Carlson “the most dangerous antisemite in America.” He is leading a “modern-day Hitler Youth,” Mr. Fine said.”
Republican Promoted to House Foreign Affairs as He Says of Gaza: “Starve Away”
“In addition to calling for Palestinians to be starved, Fine has previously said in an interview with Fox News that Gaza should be “nuked,” just as the U.S. did to Japan toward the end of World War II.”
I love this article. Very comprehensive. The only thing that is missing is Mr Musk giving his Nazi salute on stage in front of all the MAGA supporters after Trump won
This isn’t Carlson’s first controversial interview. He’s interviewed a Holocaust “revisionist” called Darryl Cooper. Also the president of Iran and Vladimir Putin.
As with Fuentes, all were fawning with zero hard questions asked. I don’t understand how Carlson is even still in MAGA. I guess the feeling is he attracts a certain crowd and votes are votes.
I have to say, I'm enjoying this, watching the Real Nazis of MAGA and the "Not Really" Nazis of MAGA going at it. These are the people who have pushed all of the mainstream Republicans out or to the side, leaving the radicals, and the ultra-radicals to control the party.
Don't forget, Russell Vought, the second most powerful man in the White House after Stephen Miller, is one of these guys, and along with Kevin Roberts, and others, wrote Project 2025.
It's basically the White Christian Nationalists (the "Not Really" Nazis) fighting the full on Nazis.
These are the people who kinda control our lives right now, but want Complete Control of everything. They're doing a bangup job so far with everything, aren't they?
A naive question I’ve pondered now for 10 years: why is everyone so afraid of Trump et al that they feel safer spewing hate than, like the GOP of some from the ‘50s even up to Mitt Romney, sit back and are silent? Those in office (Graham’s words meant nothing - he clearly seems to be patting us - Jews - on the head and pandering), media, business, entertainment? What now with real history forbidden to be taught will even be known in 5,10, 20 years about the Holocaust?
I ask you, Scott, because so far reading, it seemed the place to ask.
I don’t rejoice in the MAGA v MAGA war. Nothing good can result.
I think that the kind of people that Trump has in his circle are all very venal, and as a "mob boss" type, he knows that there is always something that can be used to blackmail them. I think he "has things" on a lot of those people, and the rest are just so greedy that they are willing to do anything to get by his side and go along for the ride, skimming money all along the way.
Ignore Lindsey Graham. He's pandering and worthless. The last thing he said that carried any weight was at 5:03 PM, May 3, 2016, when he tweeted "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
Which brings us back to the VALUE of a MAGA v MAGA fight, which is the destruction of what is NOW called "the Republican Party" and their exposure as two differing groups of Nazis and a few worthless old fucks like Graham and Chuck Grassley.
And ANY time that Nazis are fighting each other and NOT fighting us, is a GREAT result.
Great analysis — but the missing player in this whole Fuentes/Carlson/Heritage saga is Elon Musk.
Everything you’re describing is happening inside a system Musk rebuilt from the ground up:
He removed moderation
He reinstated extremists
He monetized virality (outrage = income)
He eliminated transparency so no one can measure the consequences
This is the first major communications platform where one person controls the rules, the moderation, the algorithm, the monetization, and the data — with no outside visibility.
When you combine “no guardrails” + “cash payouts for viral outrage” + “extremists re-platformed” + “zero transparency,” you naturally get a right-wing ecosystem tearing itself apart in public.
Fuentes didn’t go mainstream accidentally. Tucker didn’t pivot accidentally. Heritage didn’t implode accidentally.
They’re responding to the incentive structure Musk built.
He didn’t join the civil war on the right —
he created the conditions that make the civil war the only game in town.
Trump and his allies are corrupted. The work is special.
Antisemitism is a plague. It should not be automatically assumed that valid criticism of Israeli foreign policy is equated with antisemitism, as it existed long before Israel became a state again. Mislabeling people is not helpful. Labeling at all is risky business. Human rights have only one label.
You gonna do one on left wing antisemitism next?
Jst for the record, Jan 6th was not a riot. A riot is disorganized random violence. Jan 6th was an insurrection, with the goal of overturning a legitimate election.
"There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan" - Groucho Marx
It’s scary to think how a man like Nick is so popular. The new gen of right wing extremism is going to be so much worse and that’s hard to believe!
All so strange. I have worked with many people who were ALL MAGA TRUMPERS. Every single one of them hated and denigrated "Jews". Now suddenly they love them???
Thanks for writing on this. I’ve always been puzzled about how these groups coexist together in voting MAGA. It’s a well-known fact that white-nationalists are virulently anti-Semitic yet they vote the same with the misguided groups of evangelicals who insist the rapture or some such hogwash is dependent upon Israel to exist for it to happen.
And Jews who side with the right? I definitely don’t get it.
I guess hate is hate and money is money. Hate and greed will corrode anything from the inside out which is what it seems like we’re witnessing now in this unholy alliance between these disparate groups. It was only a matter of time but has taken longer than I thought to finally manifest.
Any comment from Vought?
My heart is heavy. Lindsey etc can claim what they will but their agenda is clear.. its sickening.
“Representative Randy Fine, Republican of Florida, went further, calling Mr. Carlson “the most dangerous antisemite in America.” He is leading a “modern-day Hitler Youth,” Mr. Fine said.”
Republican Promoted to House Foreign Affairs as He Says of Gaza: “Starve Away”
“In addition to calling for Palestinians to be starved, Fine has previously said in an interview with Fox News that Gaza should be “nuked,” just as the U.S. did to Japan toward the end of World War II.”
https://truthout.org/articles/republican-promoted-to-house-foreign-affairs-as-he-says-of-gaza-starve-away/
These people are disgusting.
I love this article. Very comprehensive. The only thing that is missing is Mr Musk giving his Nazi salute on stage in front of all the MAGA supporters after Trump won
This isn’t Carlson’s first controversial interview. He’s interviewed a Holocaust “revisionist” called Darryl Cooper. Also the president of Iran and Vladimir Putin.
As with Fuentes, all were fawning with zero hard questions asked. I don’t understand how Carlson is even still in MAGA. I guess the feeling is he attracts a certain crowd and votes are votes.
Trump and his allies are corrupted. The work you do is critical.
I don’t think these people even believe what they spew. They like the shock value that makes them money. It’s all about the money.
Yes they do believe. I’ve argued with these people. They definitely believe it.
I have to say, I'm enjoying this, watching the Real Nazis of MAGA and the "Not Really" Nazis of MAGA going at it. These are the people who have pushed all of the mainstream Republicans out or to the side, leaving the radicals, and the ultra-radicals to control the party.
Don't forget, Russell Vought, the second most powerful man in the White House after Stephen Miller, is one of these guys, and along with Kevin Roberts, and others, wrote Project 2025.
It's basically the White Christian Nationalists (the "Not Really" Nazis) fighting the full on Nazis.
These are the people who kinda control our lives right now, but want Complete Control of everything. They're doing a bangup job so far with everything, aren't they?
A naive question I’ve pondered now for 10 years: why is everyone so afraid of Trump et al that they feel safer spewing hate than, like the GOP of some from the ‘50s even up to Mitt Romney, sit back and are silent? Those in office (Graham’s words meant nothing - he clearly seems to be patting us - Jews - on the head and pandering), media, business, entertainment? What now with real history forbidden to be taught will even be known in 5,10, 20 years about the Holocaust?
I ask you, Scott, because so far reading, it seemed the place to ask.
I don’t rejoice in the MAGA v MAGA war. Nothing good can result.
I think that the kind of people that Trump has in his circle are all very venal, and as a "mob boss" type, he knows that there is always something that can be used to blackmail them. I think he "has things" on a lot of those people, and the rest are just so greedy that they are willing to do anything to get by his side and go along for the ride, skimming money all along the way.
Ignore Lindsey Graham. He's pandering and worthless. The last thing he said that carried any weight was at 5:03 PM, May 3, 2016, when he tweeted "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
Which brings us back to the VALUE of a MAGA v MAGA fight, which is the destruction of what is NOW called "the Republican Party" and their exposure as two differing groups of Nazis and a few worthless old fucks like Graham and Chuck Grassley.
And ANY time that Nazis are fighting each other and NOT fighting us, is a GREAT result.