A massive firestorm has consumed the right since early last week, when Tucker Carlson published a lengthy interview with Nick Fuentes. In that sit-down, Carlson allowed the Holocaust-denying white supremacist streamer, who has said “Hitler is awesome,” to sand down his vile rhetoric for Carlson’s huge audience.

Commentators and politicians on the right have taken sides. Many condemned Carlson’s softball interview — and criticized Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts for defending it. But Fox News, the single most influential outlet in the MAGAsphere and Carlson’s former employer, has remained totally silent on the controversy. No one on Fox has explicitly mentioned Carlson, Fuentes or the surrounding controversy since Carlson posted his interview with Fuentes on Oct. 27, according to a Media Matters review conducted Thursday morning.

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But Fox’s executives and stars apparently don’t want “a time for choosing on antisemitism” or to address the “old political poison” that is “growing on the new right” or to try to “draw the line” on such bile. They may be worried about angering viewers on either side of the debate, or getting out ahead of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who are close to Carlson and have not weighed in on the interview.

Or, perhaps, they recognize that Carlson’s mainstreaming of Fuentes is not coming out of nowhere — and that it is consistent with his behavior when he enjoyed Fox’s support as the network’s top-rated host.