The difference in approach to politics is stark—and dangerous.

There is a very interesting difference between the left and right in American politics. On the right, as a personality moves off the deep end, he is generally denounced and let go. A decade ago, several popular conservative journalists began dabbling in white nationalism. They were fairly quickly removed from the websites on which their work appeared. More recently, several very high profile right-leaning individuals have become in the words of the president regarding one of them “kooky.” They have gone from clear support for Israel to unending demonization of the Jewish state, Jews in general and Bibi Netanyahu in particular. They have invented conspiracy theories putting Israel behind the murder of Charlie Kirk and claimed that the Palestinians treat Christians better than Israelis do. They have lost their minds, and many are more than ready to denounce them and push them away with two hands. This is a healthy state of affairs.

While there are no official demarcations of allowed and forbidden ideas and speech, the average Republican/Trump supporter has a feeling when something has moved beyond the pale. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson claimed that Charlie Kirk was moving away from Israel and that a confab funded by Bill Ackman was actually a pressure session to get Kirk back on board. Everyone present at the meeting said that such claims were not true and that the meeting was meant to strengthen ties between younger conservatives and the Jewish state. The letter from Kirk to Netanyahu that was supposed to be a smoking gun was published in full and showed the late conservative’s concern for the........

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