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It’s Monday, November 3. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Tina Brown goes behind the scenes of the fight between the Palace and the prince. The scientists who want to make real-life zombies. How one cheeky TV ad may have scuppered the U.S.-Canada trade deal. And more.
But first: The right’s very ugly, very high-stakes fight over Jew hatred.
The MAGA right is at war with itself over Jews—and the stakes are “existential.” That’s the assessment of Senator Ted Cruz.
The rock-ribbed conservative has been doing something unusual lately: training his fire on fellow right-wingers, and sounding the alarm over rising antisemitism, conspiratorial thinking, and what Cruz calls “bilious bigotry and rage.”
Cruz sat down with The Free Press’s Peter Savodnik last Thursday to explain why he’s so concerned. The interview could hardly have been more timely. Earlier that day, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation—once one of the defining institutions of the American right—issued a video message defending Tucker Carlson’s podcast interview with white supremacist troll Nick Fuentes.
As Eli Lake reports for us today, the backlash was swift, with Heritage staffers and board members angry at Roberts for aligning their institution with Carlson and his decision to invite an out-and-out racist for a softball interview. It is, says Eli, a sign of things to come.
Today, read Eli on the fault lines at the Heritage Foundation and why they are a preview of a coming MAGA civil war.
Peter’s profile of Ted Cruz, a combatant in that fight who thinks that if his side loses, “we will have lost our country,” is not to be missed.
Our third offering on the recrudescence of right-wing antisemitism comes from Samuel Goldman. He dives into the history of “Christian Zionism”—something that Carlson called a “brain virus” during his interview with Fuentes. “They’re Christian Zionists. Like, what is that?” Carlson asked Fuentes. Samuel offers a slightly more informed answer to that question than either of them managed. Read it here:
And for more on this story, don’t miss some of our other recent work, including Mary Eberstadt on “Why Antisemitism Is ‘Moral Pornography’,” Eli Lake on “How Nick Fuentes Went Mainstream,” Seth Dillon on “The Foolishness of ‘No Enemies to the Right’,” Liel Leibovitz on “MAGA’s False Patriots,” and Erick Erickson on “The Moral Rot Eating the American Right.”
—The Editors
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