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William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review whom Tucker Carlson named his son after and who is Vice President J.D. Vance's Deputy Secretary had a moral compass. He was instrumental in defining postwar American conservatism — and
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part of that meant drawing moral and intellectual boundaries. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Buckley explicitly rejected antisemitism and extremism, effectively pushing figures like the John Birch Society, neo-Nazis,
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and open antisemites out of the mainstream conservative movement.

In the 1950s -1960s, in his National Review, Buckley made it clear that antisemitism had no place in conservatism. In 1959, he wrote,
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“We accept no substitute for probity and decency; and we are not for hire by any fascists, racists, or anti-Semites.”

He repeatedly condemned antisemitic tropes that circulated among some right-wing groups at the time.
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Further, he was steadfast in confronting the John Birch Society. By the early 1960s, the John Birch Society, led by Robert Welch, was spreading conspiracy theories, including claims that President Eisenhower was a communist agent.
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Buckley denounced this, writing in National Review in 1962 that Welch was “paranoid and unpatriotic” and that responsible conservatives had to repudiate such extremism. This move effectively defined responsible conservatism as distinct from the radical or bigoted right.
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In later reflections on antisemitism specifically, such as his 1992 essay “In Search of Anti-Semitism” (published in National Review and later as a book), Buckley reaffirmed his moral line:

“A conservative cannot be a good conservative if he is an anti-Semite.”
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That essay confronted antisemitic undertones that occasionally surfaced even within the conservative intellectual world, and Buckley insisted on confronting them openly.
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We must continue to do this today and we are watching good, moral people, Christians and Jews are leaving the Heritage Foundation over their acceptance of Tucker Carlson for his antisemitism, extremism and embracing Neo Nazis and sharia law today.
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Charlie Kirk understood the issue. Tucker Carlson has embraced Islam and sharia law and the antisemitism of his Qatari and Gulf state friends who see non-Muslims as kafirs (non-believers of Islam) while Charlie Kirk framed Islam as a civilizational and
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existential threat to the U.S. Charlie Kirk posted on X:

“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

Further, on The Charlie Kirk Show (June 24, 2025), he said:
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“We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam … And we said that Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.”

He also argued, “large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.
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A 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document in America states the aim “to penetrate American society at its heart.” It is the "Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," a document written in 1991 by Mohamed Akram,
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a member of the Board of Directors for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America and a senior Hamas leader.

The memorandum outlines the Muslim Brotherhood's strategic goals in the United States,
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including establishing an effective and stable Islamic movement led by the Brotherhood, adopting Muslims' causes domestically and globally, expanding the observant Muslim base, unifying and directing Muslims' efforts, presenting Islam as a civilizational alternative,
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and supporting the establishment of the global Islamic state wherever it is.

The document was discovered during an FBI raid of a Virginia home in 2004 and was entered into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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The memorandum also includes a list of 29 organizations identified as Muslin Brotherhood fronts, many of which are still prominent Muslim-American organizations today.
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The document has been described as a "Rosetta stone" for understanding the Muslim Brotherhood's goals, modus operandi, and infrastructure in America.
See:
18)centerforsecuritypolicy.org/an-explanatory…

This is clearly not America First. Nor is President Trump's America First Doctrine, America only. We see this in his foreign policy with his support for Israel against terrorism and his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.
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The Trump doctrine "Peace through Strength" is one he adopted from President Reagan which he popularized in the 1970s-80s.
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