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‘Pretty alarming’: Ex-GOP strategist ‘blown away’ by MAGA darling’s wild new theory

A former GOP strategist said on Monday that he was “blown away” when he heard a MAGA darling’s latest conspiracy theory. Last week, Candace Owens claimed in a post on X that the governments of Israel and France were trying to assassinate her. She made the accusation after creating several episodes of her popular podcast, where she accused the Israeli government of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife is transgender. Tim Miller, host of “The Bulwark Podcast,” discussed Owens’ claims on a new episode of “Bulwark Takes” with journalist Will Sommer. “I was blown away,” Miller said. “I mean, it is absurd on its face.” Miller also addressed concerns that he is adding fuel to a fire that doesn’t need to be burning. “Part of the reason why I care about this is that she’s so ridiculous and camp that it is kind of funny,” Miller said. “Another reason is that when I speak at colleges, I ask people what they’re consuming, and the amount of Candace that you hear is pretty alarming. It’s right-wing, obviously MAGA people, but there’s also like kind of this horseshoe lefty folks that were involved in Gaza protests and all that who come by that earnestly,” he added.

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‘Political poison’: Wall Street Journal editors issue searing rebuke of the ‘new right’

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board issued a searing rebuke of the “political poison” metastasizing on the “new right” after one of MAGA’s biggest media voices interviewed an avowed antisemite. Last week, Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes on Carlson’s popular show on X. Throughout the interview, Fuentes made salacious and antisemitic comments about popular right-wing Jewish commentators like Josh Hammer, Mark Levin, and Ben Shapiro. He also claimed to be a fan of Joseph Stalin, who is known for murdering millions of his people and creating the mass starvation event in Ukraine known as the Holodomor. After the interview, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defended Carlson for interviewing Fuentes. Roberts posted a video on X claiming that “cancelling Nick Fuentes is not the answer,” and the Republican voters expect them to instead focus on defeating Democrats at the ballot box. The Wall Street Journal’s editors argued in a new editorial on Sunday that Roberts’ response to Carlson’s interview is an example of “political poison” frowning on the “new right. An old political poison is growing on the new right, led by podcasters and internet opportunists who are preoccupied with the Jews,” the editorial board argued. “It is spreading wider and faster than we thought. If conservatives-and Republicans-don’t call out this poison in their own ranks before it corrupts more young minds, the right and America are entering dangerous territory,” the editorial continued. Read the entire editorial by clicking here.

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