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The Moral Rot Eating the American Right
Erick Erickson
October 31, 2025

There was peace. And then, on October 7, 2023, there was war. We saw children murdered. We saw women’s bodies destroyed by gang rape. We saw families murdered. We saw blood everywhere. This happened. It was not a dream. It was not a lie. I know the vice president of the United States was repulsed by this. I know Kevin Roberts, president of conservative nonprofit The Heritage Foundation, was repulsed by this. But I also know that after it happened, Tucker Carlson suggested Hamas had been mischaracterized, and that it really was not a terrorist organization. I know Nick Fuentes spread conspiracy theories about the barbarism. I know Tucker Carlson has elevated people sympathetic to Hitler’s case for World War II. I know after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and after a transgender shooter opened fire on schoolchildren at Annunciation Catholic Church, loud voices on the right immediately turned around and blamed the Jews. READ MORE

FREE PRESS Victor Davis Hanson: The New Antisemitism A variety of reasons can explain this recent surge of antisemitic vitriol on the right. First, antisemitism in the last two decades has been mainstreamed by the left on college campuses. Indeed, the once-unthinkable in America has now become commonplace: chasing Jews into libraries, barring them from areas of campus, physically assaulting them, and calling for the extermination of Israel. As right-wing antisemites sensed that such flagrant attacks and bullying went largely unpunished by authorities, they apparently reasoned such exemptions would likely be extended to themselves as well. Second, the epidemic of diversity, equity, and inclusion victimhood has spread well beyond higher education to the workplace and popular culture.