The MEGA movement is fighting for the Republican Party’s “soul”

Do the fierce attacks on Tucker Carlson, the prominent subcaster of the MAG movement, which elevated Donald Trump to the president's seat, mark a deeper conflict to change the face of the Republican organization to the distanced against Zionism and Israel? specified suggestions come from influential politicians from both countries. This is crucial in the context of the conflict against Iran, the supplementary elections and the planned presidential run in the United States.

Since at least last week, the "right-wing Internet" in the US has been warmed to red in connection with the already celebrated interview that Tucker Carlson conducted with the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, declared Christian Zionist.

A conservative commentator pointed out that according to the Bible, Abraham’s descendants would receive lands covering much of the mediate East today, including parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. Carlson quoted Genesis chapter 15 and asked the ambassador if Israel had the right to this land. – It'd be fine if they took everything. – Huckabee replied in a conversation that aired on February 19.

The speech sparked an immediate reaction from representatives of many arabian countries. On February 22, the U.S. embassy spokesperson in Israel straightened out the words of his boss, stressing that they were ripped out of context, and Washington's policy towards Tel Aviv remains unchanged.

Indeed, in the remainder of the interview, the ambassador tried to clarify the land. – [Jews] do not request to return and occupy the full area, but at least they want to preserve the land they now occupy, on which they live and which they legally possess, as a safe haven for themselves— He convinced Huckabee. He added that Israel was not trying to take over Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or Iraq, but to defend its own people.

The authorities of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, the United arabian Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman and the Palestinian Authority have described the ambassador's words as "dangerous and inciting" and threatening the stableness of the region. "These statements straight contradict the imagination presented by US president Donald J. Trump (...) based on stopping escalation and creating a political horizon for a comprehensive solution that will supply Palestinians with their own independent state," they wrote in a message issued on February 22.

Huckabee, an evangelical Christian and a strong supporter of Israel and the West Bank settlement movement, opposes the thought of a 2 - state solution.

Israel gained West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and Golan Hills from Syria as a consequence of the 1967 six-day war. However, he withdrew from Sinai as part of a peace agreement with Egypt after the 1973 war and from Gaza in 2005. Since the ceasefire with Hamas, which entered into force in October 2025 after 2 years of fighting, the Israeli military has controlled most of the east part of Gaza. In the West Bank, the Israeli authorities deepened control of the occupied territory by expanding the number of judaic settlements, legalizing the facilities and introducing administrative changes. All of this takes place at a time erstwhile Trump declared that he would not let Israel to annex the West Bank and guaranteed that it would block all action in this direction.

Carlson, a erstwhile Fox News presenter, an highly popular right-wing subcaster, has been notoriously criticizing Washington's policy towards Tel Aviv for respective months, fearing bringing America into the mediate East conflict. For this reason, the pro-Israeli lobby considered him 1 of the largest “anti-Semites”.

Last Thursday, Vice president J.D. Vance praised Carlson for his interview. He told the writer “The Washington Post”: – I think this is simply a truly good conversation that will be essential for the right not only for the next few, but for many years. He added that he did not see the full interview, but “he saw a fewer passages here and there.”

Israeli Ambassador attacks publicist

Vance’s approval of Carlson’s conversation was rapidly condemned by Zionists. "Absolute disaster" – thunder leading NewsNation, Batya Ungar-Sargon.

"During the interview @TuckerCarlson repeatedly insulted president Trump and suggested that he was controlled by Netanjah” wrote right-wing commentator Laura Loomer on X. She besides referred to Vance’s comment that the interview was “a good conversation”, writing, “No, it wasn’t”. Loomer called on president Donald Trump to “tragenate” the erstwhile Fox News presenter. She besides called on lawyer General Pam Bondi to take care of Carlson, as he is simply a “threat for national security”.

However, the most fierce attack on a very popular writer was carried out on Friday, just before the Iran raid, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Yesiel Leiter. He stated that the rhetoric of the erstwhile presenter was offensive and profoundly disturbing.

Carlson has previously repeatedly suggested that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu controls Trump and incites him to war against Iran. Leiter commented for the "New York Post" that Carlson's fresh remarks, in which he claimed that president Donald Trump had bent under Israeli pressure, “a border with pornography”.

– It's just nonsense that Netanjahu controls president Trump. And that's bordering on pornography. It's so disgusting. said the Ambassador. At the same time, he condemned the "old stereotype". – It is an old anti-Semitic stereotype: “Jews have power”. America works in its best interests... It's so offensive. He offends the president and is anti-Semitic towards Jews and the judaic state said the ambassador.

Leiter assured that it was the United States that decided to attack Iran alternatively than Israel, which is simply a "model ally". He rejected the proposition that Tel Aviv was pushing Washington to do so and allowed himself to be insulted by Carlson. – I sincerely hope he's as stupid as he looks. I truly hope so. due to the fact that if he's not stupid, that means someone's backing him. So I'd alternatively he was stupid than completely corrupt. He was attacking.

Prof. Lax compares Carlson to Hitler and criticizes J.D. Vance

But inactive further in these statements went the conservative judaic prof. who compared Carlson to Hitler. Jeffrey Lax, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, engaged in combating anti-Semitism at the state university in fresh York City, where he teaches law, criticized liberals comparing Donald Trump to Hitler in 2024. A lecturer, who is referred to as a centre-rightist, frequent commentator on Newsmax and Fox News tweeted: "I never, always thought this day would come, but for the first time in my life I would compare a man to Adolf Hitler," Lax wrote on X last Friday. "Consider that I am the grandson of 4 Holocaust survivors. All my life, I have encouraged people not to compare anyone to Hitler. But... the views, rhetoric and influence of Tucker Carlson remind me of Adolf Hitler.”

Laxa was appalled that the celebrated intelligence had already supported Vice president J.D. Vance. According to the lawyer, “this situation is just as serious as a heart attack, and since @J.D.Vance is now openly and repulsively legitimizing Carlson's views, we are in a state of exceptional anti-Semitism,” he continued.

The prof. was peculiarly upset by the proposition of the writer regarding the issue of carrying out mass genetic tests in Israel, which would confirm or deny that individuals were actually descendants of Abraham. This is, of course, about the broader context of the statements—or the justification of the professed right of Jews to biblical territories by Christian Zionists. Carlson challenged them by pointing out that if the Jews presently surviving in Israel do not originate genetically from the mediate East – and for example they are from Poland or Russia – then their claims to reside in the Holy Land are questionable.

Lax commented that "to get to this point, something profoundly disturbing had to happen on many levels." He added that Carlson's appeal for genetic investigating for Jews crossed the border. “If I have always heard anything like Hitler, then erstwhile people talk about Jews who gotta prove they are Jews, based on DNA. If DNA tests were available in Hitler's time, don't you think Hitler would not have utilized them?” he asked his caller from "NYP".

A judaic lawyer added that he speaks specifically of "early Hitler, of early years before he came to power before actually physically killing someone." – I'm talking about rhetoric. He could have been stopped. People didn't take Hitler seriously. He regretted it.

The prof. had frequently criticized Carlson before, but avoided directing negative remarks at Vance. This time he stated: – For a long time, I had suspicions about Vance. I wanted to be sure.. He accused the vice president of not being able to support or legitimize Carlson's views. He considered it “crazy” and “brain rot”.

The influential podcaster was besides criticized by the editor of “Newsweek” Josh Hammer, Israeli luminary of conservatism Yoram Hazony, orthodox commentator Ben Shapiro, congressman Randy Fine, pro-Israeli activist groups StandWithUs and StopAntisemitism, and publishing about conservative, pro-Israeli attitudes specified as “Tablet”, “The Free Press” and “Commentary”.

Does Carlson have political ambitions?

The judaic Telegraphic Agency points out that what Tucker Carlson is doing is crucial due to the fact that he "builds [he] his own powerful political network before the supplementary elections, composed of characters with expanding influence on young voters". Carlson invites Republican organization candidates, including Florida politician candidate James Fishback, “a lover of anti-Semitic memes”, as well as another politicians competing in the parties for Christian Zionists, e.g. legislature candidate Paul Dans, who competes with pro-Israeli Senator Lindsay Graham or Iowa State politician candidate Zach Lahn.

Some Jews resent the fact that the American judaic community abstained from criticizing the vice president, which they consider to be “scandalous” and “autodestructive”. Vance is spared the League against defamations and its president Jonathan Greenblatt or the American judaic Committee.

Prof. Lax claims that the support Vance gave Carlson made people "eyes jump out of orbit". Last Friday afternoon, on platform X, he even made an appeal to the President; “Enough. It's an anti-Semitic state. Only Trump can end it. And he has to do it now," Lax wrote, demanding that the vice president be expelled and that Tucker Carlson be excluded from all conservative and Republican organizations.

Other MEGA members criticize Trump

Trump's decision on the attack on Iran increased boiling among MAGA sympathizers. As 1 could suppose, in an interview given Saturday morning to ABC News's chief correspondent in Washington, D.C., Jon Karl, Carlson said that the attack on Iran is "absolutely disgusting and evil." He besides suggested that it would have a crucial impact on Trump's political movement, saying, "This will importantly shuffle the cards."

A erstwhile Republican congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch supporter of the MAGA who argued with Trump about the disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein's file, published a harsh, vulgar comment on social media. She accused the president of betraying the MAGA program and tricking voters. Trump doesn't put America in first place, but last place, he thinks.

The popular subcaster supporting the president, Tim Pool, besides criticized the administration's actions as betraying the election program "America first". another influential MEGA activists Keith and Kevin Hodge wrote: “The release of the Iranian people is not the reason why we voted for Trump. president Trump totally lied to his constituents, stabbed our country in the back, and shamed his legacy irretrievably, which is the biggest fall we have always seen," she commented on the network siblings.

Some Republican legislators, including Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul besides from that state and Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio announced their disapproval for the US attack on Iran. ‘This is not America First of all“ – Massie wrote in a post on social media, adding that after the legislature resumes, he plans to work with Congressman Ro Khanna, a California politician to force a vote in legislature on the war with Iran.

"Jerusalem Post": Carlson wants to destruct MAGA. Fight for a “soul” of the Republican Party

"Jerusalem Post" in an opinion entitled Tucker Carlson is trying to break Trump’s Republican movement that made him [‘Tucker Carlson tries to destruct Trump's Republican movement that built it'], published on February 26, noted that the publicist is no longer limited to commenting but actively undermines Trump's fundamental heritage pillars.

Opinion author Mike Evans commented that although the commentator “wants to introduce himself as a password defender America first, in fact it becomes 1 of the most destabilizing forces in the movement itself that brought it to the top."

“What we are witnessing is not a polite disagreement. This is an open divided in the MAGA, which the main media now openly describe as Carlson's civilian war on the influences and his attacks on president Trump's abroad policy, peculiarly with respect to Israel and Iran," we read.

The author accuses the erstwhile presenter of trying to present the merits of the White home host in politics towards Israel as “weakness”. Among the “deservations” are the transfer of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, the designation of Israel's sovereignty over Golan Hills, the mediation of the conclusion of the Abrahamic Agreements. This was expected to be "historical moves that redefined US-Israel relations".

The author besides referred to Carlson's last interview with the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and to Huckabee's later comment, which expressed hope that Carlson would no longer be allowed into the White home due to the fact that he "causes divisions" and is "dangerous".

The author of the opinion believes that journalist's rhetoric is "not a language of mild disagreement", but it is simply a "language of alarm". "Carlson turned the case on in an interview with Saudi television, claiming that American leaders are More loyal to a abroad country than to his own, suggested that the US policy towards Iran is dictated by Israel and called the Israeli run in the Gaza Strip property. These are not critical nuances. These are provocative accusations, reflecting narratives long utilized by opponents of America. extremist Islam kills the body. Tucker Carlson, according to his critics, became their partner, killing their soul," writes Evans.

The author emphasized that Carlson's opinions are to stay "in clear contradiction with the more hawky wing of Trump's coalition". So he asked: “Who defines the program America First of all?’.

He explains that “the Trump version has always taken into account strength, deterrence, influence and strategical alliances.” In turn, "Carlson's version leans towards isolationism, skepticism towards allies and suspicion towards almost all abroad commitment". This “philosophical conflict that has now seen the light of day” continued.

This threatens to break the MEGA movement and there is no uncertainty that these tensions are increasing. While Christian Zionists show strong support for Trump, Carlson, who "has a large audience in digital media" influences "a populist, non-interventionist faction, increasingly hostile to conventional Republican abroad policy". He adds: “This is not an academic debate. This is simply a conflict for the future direction of the Republican Party."

Evans regrets that Carlson inactive retains access to the White House, even though he is condemned by prominent allies of the President. "This restless coexistence cannot last forever. Either the movement will clarify its rules or it will fall apart," he suggests, indicating that a certain limit has already been crossed. He fears that the right-wing subcaster will besides weaken the MEGA movement, contributing to its defeats in future elections. "And this would be a much bigger triumph for Trump's opponents than anything that happens in Tehran," says Evans.

He concludes: “Tucker Carlson, you are a false Christian, a false Republican and a false Trump supporter.” “If you were a actual Christian, you would talk the truth, not spread what many consider false. If you were a actual Republican, you'd be on Israel's side, not against him. And if you were a actual supporter of the Chief Commander, you would not effort to undermine his position during the war by attacking his policy towards Iran, by ensuring that Iran would never gain atomic weapons. The fact that you travel to the mediate East and effort to undermine president Trump's policy after so many wars and with specified a advanced tension, is despicable, treacherous and anti-American. This is more like the actions of a abroad agent of extremist Islam than an honest American of flesh and blood. It besides appears that you are actively active in securing triumph for the Democrats in supplementary elections. This should not be a surprise, given that your 3 children are registered Democrats," attacks Evans.

"The 27-year-old Buckley was the first of Tucker's children to registry as a Democrat, doing so in the territory of Colombia on June 5, 2015, according to voters' records. 29-year-old Lillian later registered as a politician in fresh York City on May 30, 2019. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Hope registered as a politician in Florida on June 5, 2020. Buckley presently serves as J.D. Vance's deputy press spokesman. These facts rise serious questions about where your loyalty truly lies. Your loyalty is not to support Donald Trump, the Republican organization or the Bible, which you claim you erstwhile read, but to advance your own program, even if it means allowing the radical, ungodly Democrats to burn everything we stand for," he concluded.

This alternatively emotional opinion of Evans does not take into account the fact that akin conclusions to Carlson's "hateful" are besides coming from another conservatives – it seems much more subdued than erstwhile Fox News presenter – for example Dr. John Hulsman.

Dr. Hulsman: “Attacking Iran is evidently stupid”

The author of these words is president and managing partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a global hazard assessment company.

Right after the attack on Iran, he posted his commentary on The American Conservative under a prominent title A War in Search of a Strategy. The attack on Iran is an environment [“War in search of strategy. The attack on Iran is evidently stupid.”

Presenting himself as “one of the fewer realistic Republicans who actively opposed the neoconservative fever of the country during the unfortunate regulation of George W. Bush,” he admitted that he felt precisely “the same nausea as “in the case of a catastrophic disturbance in Iraq” along with news of Trump's attack on Iran. In his opinion, "an American-Israeli attack on Iran is nothing but a war in search of strategy".

He accused Trump's crew that "like in the early 21st century, the administration—like a very mediocre advanced school debate—is now casting countless, weak strategical arguments, hoping that something will be adopted in any way; that the analytical quantity will someway offset the request for analytical quality".

Hulsman 1 by 1 rejects Trump's arguments to justify the war on Iran. He does not believe in Tehran's atomic capabilities that would endanger America and the planet in the close future. He's citing intelligence. He besides rejects the argument that the Iranians are threatening American life, indicating that soldiers stationed at bases in the region are now at risk. He besides considers that it is not in the interests of the United States to attack Iran.

He writes that “the Trump administration deserves large credit for the transformation of undoubtedly fragile American geostrategic doctrine based mostly on realistic criteria. A disastrous Wilson/neo conservative imagination of the establishment has disappeared, that America must intervene everywhere, always and at the same time, as if all regions were of equal importance to the country. The discredited establishment of abroad policy has surely forgotten the panacea that if you love everything, you love nothing that the absence of strategical decisions based on American national interests is simply a choice in itself. Instead, in the National safety strategy and elsewhere, Trump's squad made a number of bold, realistic choices, adapting American abroad policy to the fresh multipolar era. According to Roosevelt's counterpart of Monroe's doctrine, first is the Western Hemisphere, then the key Indo-Pacific (with a large part of the future political growth of the world, and besides with a advanced political risk), then Europe, and only at the end of the mediate East. In specified circumstances, the transition to the function of a abroad balancing power makes the top sense; America should aggressively intervene in specified an important, but not a key region only if the organic balance of power is disrupted. The view that the current Iran poses a threat to specified a regional balance of power is absurd. The illiterate economically Mullahs ruined the economy; the atomic program was definitely halted; the government was forced to shoot thousands of its own children to stay in power; the Iranian partners are only a shadow of themselves, whether it be Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad government in Syria, the chaotic Iraqis, or the pirate Huti. To put it plainly, these are not the features of a power that intends to take control and turn the strategical regional order upside down in the mediate East," he explains.

He pointed out that "Iran poses a greater threat to Israel than to the United States geographically, to rocket resources and the like". However, "American interests are not the same as the interests of any another country", including even long-term allies specified as Israel.

In addition, “Iran is not (despite the rumors of neoconservatives and Mossad) in a state of revolutionary ferment; it is not a home of cards that may collapse after another bombing. Even if the large Ayatollah is dead (as any media report), the government itself shows no signs of decay. Moreover, during fresh tragic demonstrations, it turned out that it was the opposite. Despite tens of thousands of people going out on the streets and despite Reza Pahlawa's assurances, a desperate heir to the throne, that part of the key muslim Revolutionary defender Corps (IRGC) would join the people, nothing like this happened," he writes.

He adds: “My political hazard firm has done quite a few work, assessing what is needed to organize a successful revolution, whether in France, the United States, Russia, China or Cuba. 1 of the key factors is that mid-level members of safety institutions (armies, intelligence services, home affairs ministries) turn to the people's side: colonels, majors, and captains first fraternize with demonstrators and then actively assist them in rearranging. This is an essential step in any revolutionary process, alchemy, which transforms average unrest into a permanent political change. Recently, however, despite the assurances of an inexperienced heir to the throne, nothing has happened. alternatively of going to the people's side, the muslim Revolutionary defender Corps (IRGC) was killing him. There is no indication – whatever happens to a sick Ayatollah – that it is simply a home of cards that will shortly collapse," he points out. And he warns against a “hot hand error” or “persuade that if individual was fortunate (for example, he scored 4 for 3 points in a row), he will inactive have.”

The current war is much bigger than Operation Bombing Iran's atomic Center Fordow or kidnapping Venezuelan President. "First, these were very circumstantial limited missions, with very clearly defined criteria for success and failure. This time, with many-day attacks, the mission is longer and most importantly – as we have just explained clearly – the measurement of success and failure is not only unclear; it is simply not there. It is almost impossible to accomplish success in abroad policy if the conditions for this success are not clearly defined; here, as in Iraq, we have only a war in search of a strategy. If this had worked on these conditions, it would have been the first specified case in history. But surely 1 of the most crucial moments of the Trump era is at stake: the thought that we must halt conducting misconceptions by choice and service needs America first” points out.

Over the coming months, with the next weeks of war in the mediate East, the supplementary elections and the presidential run will prove whether the MEGA movement will fall apart and whether the Republican organization will actually change its face, which the Christian Zionists fear.

Agnieszka Stelmach