On February the 18th, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson screened a film for senior government

officials in the east room of the White House. It was called The Birth of a Nation, a three-hour

piece of propaganda that glorified the Ku Klux Klan

and portrayed emancipated black Americans as unworthy of freedom.

It marked a chilling inflection point when white nationalism stepped out of the relative shadows

and into the center of the federal government. And if that sounds familiar to you, it's because

we're watching that happen again today. Last week, on Tuesday, November 4th, voters expanded the

Democratic Party's tent, embracing its diverse wings, bringing voters that the party had lost to Trump

back into the fold, particularly Hispanic voters, young men, and people without college degrees.

Meanwhile, as Democrats were broadening their coalition, the Nick Fuentes-Tucker-Carlson

Heritage Foundation fiasco exposed a Republican Party that's moving farther toward the fringes

of the extreme right wing, towards something more tribalistic and dangerous.

A Republican Party increasingly defined by white Christian nationalism, exclusion, resentment

at the nation's pluralism, and a party no longer feeling the need to disguise any of it.

Today's GOP has moved beyond the dog whistle, openly aligning with forces that once existed

only in the darkest corners of the internet. We saw that this week when Tucker Carlson, one of the

most recognizable figures in conservative media, hosted a friendly two-hour conversation with

Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who praises Adolf Hitler, spe open anti-Semitism and calls for a white Christian America.

Now, perhaps it's not all that surprising that he did that, but what came next marks a notable rupture in today's conservative movement.

The Heritage Foundation, the most powerful conservative think tank in Washington and the one that gave us Project 2025,

came out and defended Carlson's interview.

These are not fringe bloggers or anonymous trolls. The Republican Party's main policy workshop was validating the casual platforming of a neo-Nazi.

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