Megyn Kelly’s recent behavior has exposed a deeper fracture inside the conservative movement: a willingness to excuse or downplay clear instances of bigotry when doing so protects certain media allies. Instead of applying the same moral standard she demands from others, she has repeatedly run interference for figures who flirt with conspiratorial or anti-Jewish rhetoric, and she has treated legitimate criticism as an attempt to “silence” her friends. That move isn’t just intellectually unserious; it’s corrosive. A movement that once prided itself on moral clarity now finds one of its most visible voices twisting herself into knots to defend the indefensible, selectively “fact-checking.” The result is a credibility crisis of her own making and it raises uncomfortable questions about what, exactly, she believes conservatism should stand for. Here are a few thoughts:
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