The greatest threat to the conservative movement today isn’t coming from the left. It’s emerging from within.
Once, American conservatism stood as the moral defense of Western civilization, a coalition built on faith, freedom, reason, and Judeo-Christian values. But now, especially following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, those foundations are cracking. Charlie was the bridge builder within the conservative, MAGA movement that was growing thanks to Trump’s leadership of the Republican party. However, ever since the war, and even more so, since Charlie’s assassination, across conservative media and youth culture, a new strain of Jew-hating antisemitism, conspiracy, and moral relativism is taking root.
And if the conservative movement doesn’t confront it now, with a line in the sand, it will lose its moral compass, endanger the Republican Party and lose the political momentum that President Trump brought back to the party.
When the Movement Turns on Its Own
Ben Shapiro has spent his adult life fighting for the soul of the conservative movement. He built The Daily Wire, trained a generation of conservative youth, debated radical leftists on hostile campuses, and stood unapologetically for Israel and the West.
Yet today, he’s under attack not from the left, but from voices considered influential in the conservative movement.
Candace Owens, once his colleague, has trafficked in insinuations bordering on conspiracy, including the grotesque suggestion that Erika Kirk and the leadership at TurningPointUSA were somehow involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
When Shapiro condemned that as dangerous nonsense, Owens and Megyn Kelly accused him of lying.
Think about that: the man defending truth is branded the traitor, and those spreading lies are hailed as “free thinkers.” That reversal of moral order tells you everything about where some people in the movement are heading.
The Tucker Carlson Problem: From Pro-Israel Voice to Antisemitic Enabler
Few figures illustrate the confusion within the conservative movement more clearly than Tucker Carlson. Once one of the conservative movement’s most articulate champions in the media of traditional values and a stalwart friend of Israel, Carlson has morphed into what Dinesh D’Souza aptly called “the most dangerous antisemite in America.”
His recent, fawning interview with Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust-mocking provocateur who has praised both Hitler and Stalin, wasn’t journalism. It was an act of legitimization. Carlson gave Fuentes an open platform to spread hatred without the slightest pushback or challenge.
And that silence was not accidental.
Carlson has proven, over decades of interviews, that he knows how to press hard when he wants to. When Senator Ted Cruz expressed support for Israel rooted in his Christian faith and the Bible, Tucker grilled him aggressively on it, interrupting, mocking, and questioning his sincerity in prioritizing support for America over Israel.
#3 – Ted Cruz claims defending the nation of Israel is in the Bible.
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) June 18, 2025
Tucker Carlson asked for the citation, and this happened. pic.twitter.com/ZEAMpRm46Y
But when Fuentes, an influential voice for many young conservatives today, glorified Hitler and Stalin, Carlson simply nodded and moved on.
Free speech is one thing. Allowing a proudly Jew-hating, fascist to go unchallenged is another. Tucker knew exactly what he was doing.
What’s worse, most of conservative media, Megyn Kelly included, responded with deafening silence. No moral outrage. No accountability. Just quiet acceptance. That silence is how evil spreads.
And on top of that, Tucker continuously says that people should stop talking about Israel, yet…
How U.S. Aid to Israel Became a Weapon Against Israel
The Jew-hating antisemitic narrative now spreading inside parts of the right feeds on ignorance, particularly regarding U.S.-Israel relations.
For years, Israel’s enemies, both on the far left and now increasingly on the nationalist right, have twisted the issue of U.S. aid into a cudgel. They portray Israel as a “parasite” living off the American taxpayer, despite the reality that the partnership overwhelmingly benefits the United States. (Ironically, at the same time that they blame Israel and the Zionists for “controlling” America. How they logically claim both is beyond me)
In truth, U.S. military “aid” to Israel functions more like an investment in joint defense. Roughly three-quarters of those funds are spent in the U.S. on American-made weapons systems, keeping American defense workers employed and U.S. weapons industries competitive. In return, Israel provides America with priceless battlefield data, counter-terrorism intelligence, and advanced weapons systems tested in real combat conditions.
Israel has shared innovations in missile defense, drone technology, and cyber-security that directly save American lives and protect U.S. troops. The Iron Dome system alone has influenced U.S. air-defense strategy worldwide.
Many Israelis themselves want to reframe this aid entirely, turning it from a grant package into a mutual trade and defense partnership precisely to eliminate the stigma of dependency that haters exploit. The point isn’t to take more, but to restore balance and truth to the relationship.
Yet influencers like Candece Owens, Tucker Carlson, and the Fuentes-aligned groyper crowd, deliberately ignore this reality. They weaponize the “aid” myth to turn young conservatives against Israel, and by extension, against Jews.
Rod Dreher’s Warning: The Fuentes Generation
Rod Dreher’s recent report, “What I Saw and Heard in Washington,” confirmed what many of us feared: antisemitism is no longer confined to the fringe.
After conversations with senior GOP staffers, Dreher revealed that 30 to 40 percent of young Republican aides now admire Nick Fuentes.
“The Groyper thing is real… it has infiltrated young conservative Washington networks to a significant degree,” he wrote.
“Irrational hatred of Jews (and other races, but especially Jews) is a central core of it.”
These are the next generation of policy staffers, speechwriters, and campaign managers. And they are being radicalized by a figure whom Tucker Carlson just legitimized to millions of viewers.
The Cost of Silence
The moral collapse we’re witnessing is not merely about Israel or Ben Shapiro or Mike Levin. It’s about the future of US conservatism itself.
A movement that once drew moral strength from the Ten Commandments is now flirting with ideologies that worship power, resentment, and race. When Jew-hating antisemitism becomes acceptable on the right, conservatism ceases to be conservative, it becomes reactionary nihilism in a red hat.
History shows where that road leads.
The Way Back: Moral Courage and Clarity
If conservatism is to survive as a moral and intellectual force, it must reclaim its soul. That means:
- Naming the poison. Jew-hating Antisemitism is not “edgy populism.” It is evil.
- Calling out the enablers. Tucker Carlson’s platforming of Fuentes and Megyn Kelly’s silence must be condemned.
- Defending the builders. Ben Shapiro, Mike Levin and other Jewish conservatives have strengthened the movement; they deserve our protection, not our suspicion.
- Reframing the U.S.–Israel alliance. End the “aid” stigma; speak the truth about mutual defense, shared intelligence, and joint innovation.
- Re-educating the youth. Conservative Gen-Z must rediscover the moral and biblical foundations that made the movement great, not the nihilism of the groypers.
Conclusion: The Soul of the Movement Is on the Line
The conservative movement is standing at a moral crossroads. One path leads back to faith, truth, moral clarity, and the Judeo-Christian ethic. The other leads to the chaos of Fuentes, the cynicism of Tucker Carlson and Candece Owens, the silence of Megyn Kelly, and the moral decay of growing voices in the movement that no longer knows right from wrong.
If we do not defend our own, if we do not defend the Jews, the truth-tellers, and the moral foundations that made the conservative movement noble, the U.S. and the freedom loving world will lose far more than elections.