Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem. pic.twitter.com/Gvo116ojnf
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 9, 2024
We lost Richard Spencer and Evan McLaren.
We gained people like Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh.
In other words, we traded up. Charlottesville was a blessing in disguise. The collapse we experienced back then was necessary to reach a larger audience.
In 2017, the Alt-Right had leaders like Richard Spencer who were unlikable, who had zero communication skills, whose instinct was to appeal to coastal liberal elites and who were mainly interested in insulting Christians and alienating the potential audience for our views.
In 2024, those people have been cleared out. They have been replaced by people like Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh who are talented communicators with large platforms who can communicate with Christians who are over 80% of the Right. Tucker and Walsh will take an edgy topic floating around the Dissident Right – in this case, Christian support for Israel – clean it up and ask questions about it.
I think they are performing a vital service in eroding taboos. I know for a fact from decades of experience how hard it is for some of the people in this space to communicate with Christians. We need younger Christians and White evangelical Protestants to change their views about Israel.
I’m excited by the movement that I am seeing on the issue. Unlike some of the people who I see ranting in comment sections, this erosion of support for Israel among younger White evangelicals is important.