It has been a bad month for the MAGA movement. While voters were rejecting candidates aligned with President Trump, MAGA leaders were fighting with one another over how much antisemitic bigotry and extremism they should be welcoming into their movement. Not a great look.

At the center of the controversy was former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes, a Hitler-loving, Stalin-admiring online personality who has built a following among alienated young white men with a daily stream of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, white Christian nationalism, threats of violence and a yearning for American democracy to be replaced with a fascist dictatorship.

Fuentes has been on a tour of right-wing podcasts, where interviewers have allowed him to polish his reputation and downplay his extremism. Carlson has been wallowing in far-right fever swamps since leaving Fox News, so it wasn’t........

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