But politically speaking, Fuentes is a much easier problem for Republicans to handle than Carlson is. Fuentes is a flare in the night sky. Bright, crude, and easy to track. Everyone knows where he stands. He doesn’t pretend to be a loyal party man. He has withheld support when it suited him, including refusing to back Trump in 2024. He attacks Trump directly, in plain language, without deflecting blame onto lower-level figures. That allows Republicans to say, “That’s not us,” and mean it. Fuentes functions, in this sense, as a kind of ideological quarantine zone. He is visible, legible, and...