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MMA REPORT A history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ extreme misogyny | Media Matters for America

A history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ extreme misogyny

Over the years, Fuentes has called women the “number one political enemy in America,” said “women need to be punched in the mouth” if they “emasculate” men, and claimed the age of consent is a “feminist construct”

Written by Reed McMaster & Jack Wheatley

Research contributions from Pete Tsipis

Published 03/16/26

“Your body, my choice” may be Nick Fuentes’ most infamous line attacking women, but the noted white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier has a long history of using misogynistic rhetoric on his America Firstlivestreams and during appearances on other online shows. These comments include instances where:

Fuentes has advocated for imprisoning women and stripping away their rights}:

Fuentes has said: “When women come at me and they're like, you need to do this, you need to do that. I'm just like, shut up,” then mimed violently punching a pumpkin on his desk. Fuentes said: “You know what my favorite words are when a woman talks? I made cookies.” Rumble, *America First*, [10/2/25]

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  1. ### A recent history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ Holocaust denial

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  1. ### Nick Fuentes: “Women exist for sex. That is why they are mothers, or they are whores, or they are nuns. End of list.”

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  1. ### Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

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Beneath the spectacle, the right-wing influencer has created a heap of human wreckage.

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Whatever else may be said about him, one fact cannot be denied: Nicholas J. Fuentes, the 27-year-old racialist influencer, is on the run of his life.

That’s a remarkable shift from 2017, when Fuentes was a little-known university freshman who hosted alittle-watched political talk show. Over time, he developed a fanatical, cultlike following known as the “Groypers.” His digital following soon crossed over into the real world: first, with his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally; then, with his long-running feud with conservative activist Charlie Kirk; and finally, with his role in “Stop the Steal,” which culminated outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Fuentes has cultivated a reputation as the most provocative and controversial figure on the Right. He has done this by embracing taboos, praising Hitler, and opposing interracial marriage. In turn, he has ridden a wave of spectacle and outrage to new heights, with an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, and garnering frequent coverage in outlets such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.

Attempting to undercut his growing influence, the media and Fuentes’s right-leaning critics both tend to focus on Fuentes’s record of offensive remarks. Take Fuentes’s appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During the two-hour interview, Morgan played a litany of clips from Fuentes’s talk show, highlighting bigoted comments he’s made over the years.

But this line of attack merely plays into Fuentes’s hands. As one of us has previously noted, Fuentes is best understood as an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called “hyperreality.” Under conditions of hyperreality, symbols of past phenomena lose their meaning and circulate as hollowed-out images through the digital landscape, where they drive discourse and spark emotional reactions.

This is the framework through which Fuentes, with his professed admiration for Hitler and Stalin, and his embrace of anti-Semitism, should be understood. Above all, he is engaged in a performative demand for attention, cynically harnessing transgression to drive clicks, sow chaos, and gain notoriety.

By contrast, this City Journal investigation—which draws on livestreams, a review of public records, and interviews with key associates—focuses not on Fuentes’s words but on his actions. (Fuentes did not return a detailed request for comment for this article.) It looks beneath the spectacle of outrage and the self-mythology he has curated and reveals a shocking heap of human wreckage that has accumulated within Fuentes’s political universe: betrayal, pedophilia, suicide, murder.

Welcome to the freak world of Nicholas J. Fuentes.

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes was born in Chicago in 1998. He grew up in the suburb of La Grange Park. In high school, he served as student council president. After graduation, he briefly attended Boston University before dropping out. Fuentes then moved back to the Chicago area, where, every weeknight, he livestreams his talk show, America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes.

With a greenscreen backdrop, Fuentes sits behind a wooden desk, typically in a suit and tie, pontificating on political and cultural events. Frequently, he launches into expletive- and slur-laced rants. Fuentes presents himself as a dissident truthteller in a world of lies; the ringmaster of a revitalized Right; and a spokesman for young, patriotic men sold out by the elites.

The reality behind the scenes, however, is quite different from this public-facing mythology. The world that has surrounded Fuentes over the past decade is one of paranoia, intrigue, drama, and betrayals. Several of his associates have broken from his movement over the years, spilling dirt on his operation in the process, with allegations and counter-allegations following in the wake of their apostasy. At the same time, Fuentes has developed a fanatical, cultlike following, with many Groypers—at his insistence—swearing a public oath to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes.”

One of these young men is Dalton Clodfelter, a 25-year-old Fuentes follower who spoke to City Journal. Clodfelter says he first encountered Fuentes through viral video clips and eventually connected with him through an online group chat. There, he says, the two “hit it off.” At the time, Clodfelter was young, religious, and serving in the U.S. Army.

“I was pretty naïve at the time,” he recalled. “I wanted to be a commentator. I started out on radio when I was 16. I wanted to be a guy that talked and [Fuentes] was more than happy to help me along.”

In the years that followed, Clodfelter pursued a career as an online commentator, attempting to follow in Fuentes’s footsteps. Clodfelter posted openly extreme, racist, and anti-Semitic rants; he often used racial slurs. As a result, Clodfelter claims, mainstream platforms banned his accounts. Seeking an alternative, he moved over to cozy.tv, which Fuentes created to host his own show after being banned from other platforms.

“I was making really great money streaming,” Clodfelter said. “[Then] all of a sudden, like, these income sources are being taken away. . . . Now, I’ve got to figure out a new way to generate this income and supplement these things, and that really did suck on top of all the social media banning. The good thing was, Nick offered me a platform.”

Clodfelter’s association with Fuentes and his own language—including a pledge to “rape, kill, and die”—pushed him further and further from the real world. As he got deeper into the Groyper cult, Clodfelter underwent a period of dramatic disintegration: he was kicked out of the military and saw income streams dried up, and his first marriage ended in divorce, he claims; his online comments grew more extreme, erratic, and disturbed.

The end result was predictable. In a livestream, Clodfelter admitted he’d become unemployable. “I’m really untouchable,” he said. “I can’t go work for a congressman, that’s not going to happen. I can’t go get a job even at, like, a McDonald’s . . . . You look me up—look my name up . . . see what you find, and let me know if you’d hire me.”

Yet Clodfelter is unrepentant about his association with Fuentes and harbors no “resentment” for the personal cost he’s paid.

“I appreciate Nick and everything he’s done and what he’s built and everything he did for me,” he says. Fuentes might have led him down the path to personal ruin, but he was the one who took the final steps. “I decided to say the N-word. I decided to say I love Hitler . . . . And now I’m here.”

In the grand scheme of things, Clodfelter might have gotten off easy. Other Groypers have ended up in prison.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Fuentes was in Washington, D.C., where he joined crowds contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Near the Capitol, Fuentes urged the crowd onward.

“Keep moving towards the Capitol!” heshouted into a bullhorn. “It appears we are taking the Capitol back from the police right now! Keep marching and don’t relent. Never relent! Break down the barriers and disregard the police!”

Numerous Groypers entered the Capitol that day. One rioter even carried an “America First” flag into the building. But after urging his followers toward the Capitol, Fuentes himself did not go inside. He was investigated but has not been arrested or charged in association with the day’s events.

This fact has raised eyebrows within far-right circles, particularly given the video evidence of him encouraging others to disobey the police. A former FBI agent, who spoke to City Journal on the condition of anonymity, said agents were instructed to “take down every person who was at January 6.” Fuentes, through his attorney, denied having been knowingly interviewed by federal law enforcement.

While Fuentes may have escaped the long arm of the law, other Groypers present that day weren’t so lucky. In the months that followed, at least seven were charged and sentenced for entering the Capitol on January 6. In the aftermath of their arrests, Fuentes disavowed the arrested Groypers, calling them “losers” and saying he did not “wish to be associated with” them. They may have pledged to “rape, kill, and die,” but in the Groyper movement, loyalty appears only to run in one direction.

One question has dogged Fuentes for years: How does he make his money and finance his political operation? During his livestreams, fans must pay a minimum of $20 to pose questions during his Q+A sessions. He has solicited donations and hawks America First merchandise and subscriptions to his $100-a-month private Telegram channel.

Fuentes’s largest known donor to date was a French computer programmer and cryptocurrency millionaire named Laurent Bachelier. In December 2020, as right-wing factions were organizing the “Stop the Steal” protest in Washington, D.C., Bachelier transferred roughly $522,000 in Bitcoin to a network of white nationalist and neo-Nazi activists. The largest recipient, by far, was Fuentes, who received roughly $250,000. Hours after initiating the Bitcoin transfers, Bachelier committed suicide at the age of 35.

Within three months, Bachelier’s donation to Fuentes had effectively doubled in value due to a significant spike in the price of Bitcoin.

After January 6, Fuentes’s finances appear to have been briefly imperiled. The Gray Zone, an investigative outlet edited by hard-left journalist Max Blumenthal, published a purported letter that the Department of Justice sent Fuentes, stating that the DOJ had frozen accounts belonging to Fuentes on January 23, 2021. By the summer of 2021, however, the purported letter claimed DOJ had withdrawn its request to freeze the account.

In spite of this, Fuentes allegedly continued to claim publicly that his funds remained frozen. That narrative unraveled when Jaden McNeil, a former close associate and the treasurer of Fuentes’s nonprofit, said on a livestream that Fuentes had regained access to the funds, a claim corroborated by the Gray Zone’s purported records.

“He’s had that [money] back from the feds for almost a year,” McNeil said on the livestream, accusing Fuentes of using the story to raise money while, at the same time, purchasing an expensive car. “He’s a total liar.”

Over the years, Fuentes has also sought money from at least one prominent right-wing benefactor, according to sources familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. One former associate claims that in January 2022, Fuentes was scouting real estate in Tampa Bay, where he was considering moving his political operation. During the trip, the associate claims, Fuentes drove four hours to Miami to meet a then-employee of Peter Thiel, the right-wing venture capitalist who has financially backed Republican causes, including the campaigns of President Donald Trump and then-Senate candidate J. D. Vance.

Armed with a presentation, Fuentes pitched Thiel’s employee on providing funding for his show and political operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Thiel, one source claimed, never replied to Fuentes’s request.

Soon after, Fuentes began launching a series of public attacks not only on Thiel, whom he called “the CIA,” but also on Trump and Vance. Fuentes also now bemoans the influence of Thiel funding in right-wing circles, despite having allegedly sought out the very Thiel funding he condemns. Multiple former Fuentes associates who spoke to City Journal claim that the Thiel story is telling, as it reveals Fuentes’s true motivations: not political grievances, but personal ones.

Conversations with multiple former associates paint a picture of Fuentes’s positions as not rooted in principle, but shifting with his perceptions of personal advantage and what he perceives as threats to his ego.

“[There’s an] extraordinary gap between the way he describes himself and presents himself to his followers . . . and his real life,” said former Fuentes ally Milo Yiannopoulos. “He’s somebody who doesn’t believe in anything at all.”

Perhaps the most sordid chapter in the Fuentes story involves his relationship with Ali Alexander, a political activist and key organizer of “Stop the Steal.” In 2023, Alexander was accused of asking teenage boys for sexual photographs.

Amid the fallout from the scandal, Fuentes initially “disavowed” Alexander’s actions, while lashing out at the accusers, saying the teenaged boys were guilty of “flirting” with Alexander. “The real victim in this entire saga is me,” Fuentes said.

He had also previously downplayed the allegations on his show. “If we’re talking about rape and murder and things like that, okay, but we’re talking about flirting?” Fuentes said. “Give me a f***ing break.”

Fuentes has long been aware of Alexander’s alleged proclivities. On a livestream in 2017, Fuentes said there was “abundant evidence” that Alexander “would like to interact in a sexual way with young fashy white boys quite like myself, and like others.” In a video posted by hard-right journalist Dustin Nemos—which purportedly depicts events from November 2020, during the so-called Million MAGA March—a young-looking male, whom Nemos describes as a teenager, recounts to Fuentes a conversation in which the alleged teenager called Alexander a “pedo.” Fuentes responded: “How do people not know about it?”

Despite this history, Fuentes continued to associate with Alexander, appearing alongside him at various political events, including one Fuentes encouraged his supporters to attend. After the scandal broke, Fuentes reportedly pressured one of Alexander’s accusers to recant his allegation in exchange for securing him a job in politics. (Fuentes denied this at the time; he did not return a City Journal request for clarifying comment.) That year, Fuentes also acknowledged on a livestream that, during the Kanye West presidential campaign, he had remained in daily contact with Alexander despite the allegations. In 2024, a Colorado police department confirmed that it was working with “partner agencies” in Texas to investigate Alexander.

Alexander did not return a request for comment.

The Alexander scandal is not an aberration, but part of a broader culture within the Groyper movement. In 2022, Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, a Fuentes fan who had been photographed with him at a political event, was charged with possession of child pornography and making interstate threats on a Turning Point USA event. In the aftermath of the arrest, Fuentes attempted to distance himself, saying Gomez had “nothing to do with me or America First.”

Fuentes’s own comments on sexual topics are equally disturbing. He has stated that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “cool as f***”; has expressed skepticism about age of consent laws; and indicated he wants to marry a 16-year-old girl when he turns 30. For the Groypers, the transgression of political and sexual taboos is part of Fuentes’s appeal. The more furious the denunciations of Fuentes—racist, sexist, pedophile, Nazi—the deeper his audience digs in. “These labels don’t mean anything,” says Clodfelter, the Fuentes follower. “Those words are meaningless to us now . . . . It doesn’t affect us anymore. And Nick proves that.”

From one perspective, we might be tempted to dismiss Fuentes as a hyperreal spectacle. His Groyper movement relates to politics the same way pornography relates to sex: stripped of meaning, flattened into an image, sensationalized for personal gain.

But hyperreality does not mean unreal, and, like pornography, it can often intrude on reality in ugly and unexpected ways. Conservatives who care about the future of the movement should understand that Fuentes is corrosive. Despite his self-mythology as the most right-wing pundit in America, he is, in a real sense, a tool of the Left. Progressive activists have spent the past decade pushing the narrative that conservatives are Nazis and Donald Trump is Hitler. In Fuentes, they have finally found their man.

The spectacle moreover is not only politically corrosive, but personally corrosive to its participants. At heart, the Fuentes phenomenon is not about ideas, or ideology, or power; it is about an angry, broken young man leading other angry, broken young men down a digital trail that ends in ruin.

Fuentes might laugh about his command for his followers to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes,” explaining it away as irony or a morbid joke. But it was only a matter of time before one of his followers, lost in the cult atmosphere of the Groyper movement and unable distinguish reality from hyperreality, would take it seriously.

That is precisely what happened last January, when a black teenager named Solomon Henderson walked into Antioch High School, outside Nashville, with a 9mm pistol and fired 10 rounds into the cafeteria, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring another student, before turning the gun on himself.

The purported manifesto Henderson left behind—a copy of which found online corresponded to contemporary news descriptions—revealed a fascination with mass shooters, including the neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed dozens of children in Norway in 2011; and a pastiche of radical ideologies lifted from internet forums and imageboards. At the logical level, these ideologies, especially when set against Henderson’s racial identity, seem to make little sense. But in the freak world, populated by a rainbow of nihilists, a black teenager, drunk on the hyperreal spectacle, can murder a young girl in a school cafeteria while calling himself an “Involuntary N[*]gger” and a “Groyper Incel.”

In the manifesto, Henderson asked himself, “Is there a particular groups[sic]or people that radicalized you the most?” He weaves one answer into the subsequent list of irony-laden names—once in plain lettering, and later, in all caps: NICK FUENTES.

:{Ryan Thorpe is an investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute.Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor ofCity Journal, and the author ofAmerica’s Cultural Revolution

Nick Fuentes is the biggest beneficiary of a crowded and fractured new era of right-wing media

Why Media Matters is naming Nick Fuentes the 2025 Misinformer of the Year

Written by John Whitehouse

Research contributions from Media Matters Staff

Published 12/19/25 vids]

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This fall saw much of the right-wing media ecosystem consumed with a battle over whether the conservative movement should embrace white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his followers. That it is even a question whether Fuentes, who has been called “the most popular representative of neo-Nazism in America,” should be welcomed by the party is a grim commentary on the current media landscape.

But it’s where we find ourselves as we wrap up 2025, thanks to the perverse incentives of the online attention economy, as well as the right's continued embrace of extremism as the fractured MAGA coalition jockeys for power in a second Trump term and beyond. Fuentes is a radical with misinformed ideas, but it's his embodiment of the MAGA movement's cynical embrace of extremism in service of political power that makes him our 2025 Misinformer of the Year.

Fuentes has fearmongered about a supposed “Jewish stranglehold” over the United States and “a genocide against whites.” He hasargued that most Black people should be in prison; claimed that “Jews run everything and they worship the devil” and that “it's not just the Zionists,” even “the ones that … aren't too fond of Israel;” and suggested putting “all the towel heads” and ”all the tiny hats" on “a big luxury cruise ship or a giant Boeing 737 Max” to ”send them all right back to the Middle East." He has also said that he would like to take away women’s right to vote and claimed that “women don't age like wine, they age like milk. They don’t age like wine. That's not how their hormones work. … I gotta find my 16-year-old wife, probably when I turn 30.”

While people calling each other Nazis is as old as the internet, Fuentes’ pro-Hitler rhetoric and Holocaust denial are uniting people from the left and the right over the view that he’s exhibiting Nazi behavior.

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Quickly, some background on the terminology for those unfamiliar. Groypers are “a group of extremely loyal supporters of Fuentes’ white nationalist and Christian nationalist ideology, which he describes as ‘America First.’” Fuentes’ rise is due largely to this following of groypers. The “groyper” name is based on a meme – a version of the Pepe the Frog image that became the group’s mascot around 2017. This group has been engaged in what’s known as the “groyper war,” working to infiltrate other right-wing institutions and convert them to Fuentes’ even more hard-line approach.

The most notable target of the so-called “groyper war” has been Turning Point USA, the organization led by the late Charlie Kirk that brought right-wing politics to school campuses. Fuentes has claimed over the years that “groypers” have successfully infiltrated Turning Point, and some observers agree. In June, close Fuentes watcher Will Sommer wrote a piece titled “How the Groypers Won” explaining that Kirk, facing constant pressure from Fuentes and the groypers, completely changed course on immigration, going from calling for tens of millions of new legal immigrants to advocating for more restrictions. Israel was a particular lightning rod here as well, with Fuentes and others like him taking advantage of those reacting to the horrific scenes coming out of Gaza. (I’d recommend John Ganz’ discussion with Ezra Klein for more on antisemitism and Fuentes.)

As Sommer noted, Fuentes has also managed to get “some of the Republicans’ leading thinkers” to adopt “his ideas” as well. With a contingent of the right already on board with “America First” economic and foreign policy that Trump himself also championed, the GOP was primed for some of Fuentes' more extreme positions.

After Trump announced widespread tariffs last spring, Fuentes celebrated what he called an “America First trade policy” that is “by far and away Trump's most solid issue, the most solid pillar in the America First pantheon.” The current push by Republicans to ban dual citizenship is something Fuentes has long called for, and Trump’s calls for “remigration” echo Fuentes, who saysTrump’s national security policy is “an explicit acknowledgement of white genocide.” Essentially, the “great replacement theory” has moved from white nationalist circles like Fuentes’ to mainstream Republican politics.

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All of this combusted when Tucker Carlson made the entirely unsurprising decision to interview Fuentes on his streaming show. Carlson had made his Fox News show “a clearinghouse for antisemitic tropes, white nationalist talking points, and fringe-right bigots,” and things had not improved since he left Fox. Fuentes had also credited Carlson with being “brave” and “courageous” and “pulling the conversation further to the right on cultural identity and social issues all the time to a massive audience” while on Fox News. Carlson even said after the interview that Fuentes’ message is that the conservative establishment is lying to its own supporters — and that Fuentes is right about that. It’s hard not to read Carlson’s words as anything but sympathetic to the “groyper war.”

The interview sparked backlash in some of the more traditional right-wing media spaces. The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiropointedly criticized Carlson in an episode dedicated entirely to the dispute, calling him “a terrible friend” to Kirk for hosting Fuentes. Fox’s Mark Levin said he’s “fighting like hell against the Tucker Carlsons and the Fuenteses and the Bannons and the others” who he claimed are “dancing with Hitler and Stalin and bigots and racists and segregationists.” Radio host Eric Metaxas said that the interview was “sick” and “despicable.” This is to say nothing of how things exploded even further thanks to a video of the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts defending Carlson.

One reason this interview roiled right-wing media is that there is no center of gravity in right-wing politics the way there used to be. Rush Limbaugh has been gone for years. Before his tragic assassination, Kirk was clearly a key figure uniting right-wing media and even vetting potential Trump administration staffers. He seemed in line to become the “titular head of the Republican Party,” as Limbaugh used to refer to himself. Now, without Kirk to help mediate intra-right wing disputes, right-wing media and right-wing politics in general have turned into a tinderbox.

The effort by right-wing influencers to combat Fuentes’ rising salience in right-wing politics in recent months is particularly feeble. A significant reason for this is because, as Ilya Somin has argued, “right-wing antisemitism is a predictable outgrowth of nationalism. A movement that exalts ethnic particularism and sees the world in zero-sum terms is highly likely to turn antisemitic over time.” And indeed it is the pro-Trump media voices who are having the most difficult time pushing back.

Sean Hannity called Trump supporters who praise Hitler “insane.” His colleague Mark Levin has ranted about Fuentes, saying that “Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, racists, bigots” are “not worth platforming.” (Other right-wing media figures are making similar comments.) Dinesh D’Souza argued with a straight face that Republicans should spurn Fuentes because “I've argued for a long time that Nazism, which means national socialism, is on the left.” Such “characteristically lazy” arguments appear to be failing.

Right-wing influencers’ attempts at gatekeeping when it comes to Fuentes aren’t gaining purchase in part because these same pundits have spent years telling their audience to ignore the sorts of arguments they are now making. (They are also failing in part because Fuentes’ stated ideas are not that far from their own.)

Fox News has hosted a guest with a history of making antisemitic remarks on its comedy show. Fox figures have downplayed or dismissed the presence of swastikas at right-wing events. Right-wing media have championed hard-line anti-immigrant politics for over a decade now. And right-wing figures have teamed up with and elevated people with dubious records of honesty, like Alex Jones.

Many right-wing figures also have made sure their audience knows criticism they don’t agree with is “cancel culture” (even if the reason they don’t agree is because they don’t understand it) and must be rejected at all times. And MAGA figures have validated internet conspiracy theories, even if they have direct ties to the subject of the theories.

When Fuentes first made national news — for marching at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville — then-Fox host and now Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said of the rally, “There's a reason those people were out there.” In 2021, Fox News even edited criticism of Fuentes out of a news article. (Fuentes thanked them.)

Perhaps most importantly, the MAGA project is organized to create and by the fringes. The influencers and the administration work in concert to “discredit Trump’s rivals and amplify his administration’s talking points and false claims, blurring boundaries between official messaging and private-sector news and opinion.”

Whatever the intent of all of this, few have benefited the way Nick Fuentes has.

Where Trump was skilled at exploiting television for gain, Fuentes is skilled at exploiting the internet for gain. Fuentes has managed to combine this understanding with anti-establishment messaging that resonates with an audience that already had an appetite for it.

Jay Caspian Kang concluded an essay he wrote for The New Yorker about Fuentes by distinguishing him from those like Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer who treaded similar ground previously. He wrote that Fuentes “seems to understand that all norms in political commentary have been destroyed and the game is now to position yourself in opposition to anything that even sniffs of the establishment.”

He added: “This is directly connected to the medium that has aided his rise, and it should worry us even more than it already does. After all, how do you stop something like this without turning off the internet?”

During their annual joint livestream, Spencer credited Fuentes with “a tremendous change” and a “sea change when it comes to young conservatives,” claiming “I think you caused a lot of it. I think you're riding the wave of other things that you didn't cause, but that you're almost like a representative of this."

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Screenshots from Nick Fuentes’ appearances on Raw Talk, Part of the Problem, Infowars, Louder with Crowder, Clavicular’s Kick stream, Jack Neel Podcast, Tommy G’s YouTube video, Piers Morgan Uncensored,and PBD Podcast

Fuentes’ recent podcast tour is instructive. Skipping over legacy right-wing media spaces like Fox News and Newsmax, he appeared on a number of right-leaning online shows this year, including some that aren’t ostensibly political. This list includes the shows of Patrick Bet-David, Glenn Greenwald, Russell Brand, and Piers Morgan. And of course, there was the interview with Carlson, which Fuentes subsequently called “so friendly.”

Fuentes has also appeared with streamers like Adin Ross, Sneako, and the Nelk Boys, giving him a chance to regale an audience of often young men with friendly banter. More are likely coming, as Asmongold, a streamer with one of the largest and fastest-growing channels on YouTube in 2025, has said he’ll eventually collaborate with Fuentes. And Asmongold has been blunt about why, saying: “Nick brings in views. ... That's why he gets invited.”

He’s correct on that. Fuentes does bring in numbers for these shows.

According to a Media Matters analysis, Fuentes has appeared on at least 20 right-wing and right-leaning online shows since July, and his appearances on these shows have garnered at least 28.4 million views on YouTube, Rumble, and Kick.

For some of these shows, including The Tucker Carlson Show, PBD Podcast, Raw Talk, and Dave Smith's Part of the Problem, the videos with Fuentes are among their most viewed. On Carlson's channel, the interview with Fuentes is one of the top five most viewed videos. And just hours after Piers Morgan livestreamed a contentious interview with Fuentes, the video had already jumped to the fifth most-viewed livestream on Morgan's channel, and it has since become the most-viewed livestream.

Some voices on the right see this happening and demand harsher questions to Fuentes in the interviews or claim that Fuentes is somehow hiding his noxious views when he’s on other podcasts and that hosts need to call him on it. But they seem to misunderstand the medium and the incentives involved.

Fuentes is truly of the internet; he knows that the real currency is attention, at all costs. A harsh interview now may well lead to a soft interview later. It’s all part of the wash. For Fuentes' part, the new attention from right-leaning shows is paying off.

Fuentes’ popularity appears to be accelerating. Search mentions of Nick Fuentes have been spiking in the country. Since early June, Fuentes has added nearly 450,000 followers on his Rumble channel, a roughly 300% increase from 150,000 followers in June to nearly 600,000.

There are good-faith skeptics in terms of Fuentes’ popularity. Some have pointed out that his engagement may be inauthentic and the volume of social mentions of Fuentes is underwhelming. I have no reason to doubt their findings, but in my view it is missing the forest for the trees. President Donald Trump reportedly hired actors to cheer for him in Trump Tower when he launched his first presidential campaign. The fake supporters didn’t stop him from winning two elections. Fuentes similarly benefits even if the support is fake. In this media environment, the appearance of support is often more important than the support itself.

Fuentes is in other ways a completely different sort of figure than Trump. Whereas Trump loves to talk about how much he loves his followers, Fuentes appears to hate many of his — or at least has no problem bickering with those among them that he doesn't find useful.

Part of what makes Fuentes who he is is his political vision and dedication. He’s not firstly concerned with increasing the number of views of his streaming show or becoming the most mentioned host on social media. He’s focused on maintaining his movement and growing as a political force.

There are some questioning whether Fuentes is “filling the void” after Kirk’s death, but I don’t think that’s quite right, at least in the way that Kirk did. Filling the void would mean trying to advance the interests of the GOP establishment by meditating between various factions. That does not seem like the type of power Fuentes has much interest in, at least for now. (Though he is notably among the various figures on the right criticizing Candace Owens’ conspiracy theories about Kirk’s murder.)

Instead, he’s mostly taking advantage of the power vacuum to get more supporters for himself and advance his political vision. And to do that, he needs to keep waging war on the Republican elites and the right-wing establishment to which he says Trump and his MAGA media allies have largely capitulated. As Eamon Whalen wrote, “Kirk said it was his life’s mission to smooth the divisions within the conservative movement. Fuentes wants to inflame them."

Fuentes launched a “Groyper War Two” aimed at Donald Trump and JD Vance in the midst of the 2024 campaign. Initially dismissed as something of a failure, it instead put Fuentes at the front of the line on the right as Trump’s second term headed toward lame duck territory — after all, most of the competitors in that sort of space had tied their fortunes to Trump’s. David Gilbert wrote in WIRED that “his influence has skyrocketed, despite—or perhaps because of—his criticism of Trump’s failed campaign promises around the Epstein case and mass deportations, as well as his support for Israel."

The current fragmented right-wing ecosystem will bring all the potential audience Fuentes could ever want right to him. He just needs to be there, as the alternative to whoever people perceive to be the right-wing establishment.

Fuentes himself says as much. In a recent stream, he argued:

Everybody got as radical as me, so that by the time I became uncensored, it was a match. By the time I became uncensored, there was a general public that had an appetite for it already. I maybe didn't even necessarily make them red-pilled. I didn't make them racist, sexist, the rest of it. They were those things.

They had an appetite for those things. They had those feelings. They had those thoughts. And then I was allowed on Instagram, and I simply said them out loud. And for that, I became extremely popular this year.

Fuentes realizes that by keeping the hard line, he will remain the center of gravity to this group. And that will keep him and his political project on track.

And to be clear, this is a political project, not just a streaming effort. Caspian Kang writes in his New Yorker piece:

Part of what separates Fuentes from his fellow-streamers is that he is capable of keeping his thoughts in a coherent, if odious, order. He once offered a trollish, occasionally captivating, and always grossly bigoted hour-long act; that has evolved into something more like a daily address, one that presents a code of behavior and a set of distinct ideas. As recently as a year ago, I’m not sure I could have told you what Fuentes thought about anything outside of his hatred of minorities, gays, and Jewish people. Today, he has developed a vile but discernible vision for the U.S.—something few of his predecessors in the role of far-right boogeyman have been able to do.

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Crucially, Fuentes has become one of Donald Trump’s most ardent critics on the right. He repeatedly tells a story about a nation of young men in flyover country who believed that Trump would realize a new vision of America and who now have been betrayed. These young men, as Fuentes put it recently, are looking at China and the United Arab Emirates and asking why America couldn’t build “world wonders” and “peaceful” cities. Their interest in MAGA was both industrial and quasi-socialist: they believed that Trump would drain the swamp and bring new legislators to Washington, D.C., who would restore manufacturing jobs, and that America, a failing empire, would “draft” people like them, devastated by poverty and the opioid epidemic and general aimlessness, back to work. All that was a lie, Fuentes now says. Trump has been in or around the heart of political power for more than a decade, and, according to Fuentes, is a sellout who has been bought by the oligarchy. Only Fuentes is willing to put America first.

As Trump’s polling inches lower and lower — and he gets older and older — this analysis only becomes more salient.

You can see this in how some politicians and right-wing institutions seem to be afraid of confronting Fuentes because they need the support of groypers. Trump, who infamously dined with Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, defended Carlson following the Fuentes interview, and Vice President JD Vance allegedly pointed to the downside of attacking Fuentes — even after Fuentes attacked Vance’s wife. Fuentes has taken victory laps over Vance’s reluctance, calling it the “groyper squeeze."

Fuentes is not going away. It’s not even clear that there’s anywhere to go. If he did have a sudden and complete change of heart, renounced politics, and moved to the other side of the globe tomorrow, it would be all too easy for someone to take his place. The playbook isn’t that difficult to learn, and there’s clearly at least some people ready to follow his lead. We’re already seeing “Nick Fuentes clones” popping up in right-wing media.

There’s no shortage of people discussing their experiences with the rising number of groypers on college campuses, and polling and anecdotal reports support the notion that the group is growing.

Yale University’s fall 2025 youth poll found “extremely conservative” voters are more likely than those of other ideologies to agree with statements commonly considered antisemitic.

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Yale Youth Poll, 2025

A Manhattan Institute poll found that “nearly four in ten” current GOP voters “believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe” and that “younger men are especially likely to hold this view.”

Right-wing writer Rod Dreher has claimed “something like 30 to 40 percent of DC GOP staffers under the age of 30 are Groypers.” His numbers are impossible to fact-check, and others on the right disagreed with them, some vociferously. Fuentes, for his part, has made similarly sweeping claims. He also admits that the uncertainty is a tactical advantage, saying, “We want them to have no clue how many Groypers there are, where they are, who they are. We want them to be completely in the dark.”

Paul Ingrassia, nominated to a key position by the White House before his nomination was withdrawn following a scandal regarding a comment about his “Nazi streak” and then subsequently given another position, was spotted in 2024 at a Fuentes rally.

Joe Kent, currently the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, confessed in 2022 that he previously had a strategic phone call with Fuentes but claimed no further association. Kent’s confession reportedly came after Fuentes had bragged about the call on a livestream.

Fuentes has ties to other influential people on the right as well.

The sheer volume of right-wing figures sounding the alarm about Fuentes also underscores that there is some truth to Dreher’s claim of big numbers of groypers among young Washington staffers. As Ben Burgis noted in reference to the “father of American Nazis,” back in the day “no one was arguing about whether the percentage of young Eisenhower staffers who were fans of George Lincoln Rockwell was in the single or double digits.”

This is headed nowhere good. The redistricting dance that has gone on will only make lower-turnout primaries more important and arguably make it easier to get more Fuentes allies into Congress. (You may recall when the QAnon conspiracy theory and election denial infiltrated MAGA and the GOP.)

In a recent episode, Fuentes called on America First candidates to run for office and pressure Republicans, saying, “What if they voted as a block, and they were not loyal to the Republican Party, they were not loyal to Trump, they were not loyal to Israel? … What if the Electoral College comes down 269-269? You’re going to need every electoral vote that you can get. What if an America First spoiler candidate runs in a presidential election and maybe they win two or three of those states? … We’re looking to fundamentally replace the GOP." Sommer points to a Florida gubernatorial candidate running on “an overtly groyper platform.” Fuentes has said the candidate “seems cool.”

Fuentes has also said that he sees his role as shaping people who find him and inspiring what comes next:

Fuentes’ disdain for many of his supporters appears to have no impact on his popularity, but the 27-year-old is clear that what he refers to as the “grug-level” supporters are not what is needed in order for his movement to take control. Instead, Fuentes speaks about attracting “elite human capital,” supporters who will then become part of an “officer class” of “super intelligent, entrepreneurial” people.

“Once we get 1,000, 5,000 of those guys, those are going to be the party officials, party apparatics as an analogy,” Fuentes said. “I'm kind of interested in inspiring those people, indoctrinating those people. They watch a show, they get the ideas, they get the inspiration, they kind of take a project into their own hands."

There appears to be at least some audience for what they would create. Jeffrey Epstein associate Steve Bannon talked on his podcast with a pollster who said young MAGA voters are looking for “their Franco” — referring to Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. We’ve seen similar sentiments in right-wing media before. One right-wing streamer made a positive remark about Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet while interviewing Fuentes. On Fox News, host Jesse Watters said last year that you have to be a dictator to get things done in Washington, D.C. And in 2021, a radio host told Tucker Carlson that the right would pick a “fascist” within the next two decades to take “drastic measures.” Earlier this year while discussing Trump’s military parade, Fuentes gave what he called a “Roman salute” and said, “We need a real dictator.”

Should that disastrous moment come, Fuentes is unlikely to be that dictator. Indeed, some are pointing out that in such a scenario, Fuentes would essentially be a useful idiot. But in the meantime, he’s priming the pump and giving that audience targets to lash out at.

Some may say that Fuentes is straightforward about his positions — after all, he is very clear in his racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and so on. We at Media Matters believe that this is bigotry and that it falls under the umbrella of misinformation, but the reason Fuentes was chosen as 2025's Misinformer of the Year goes further.

Fuentes’ core message is that Trump is presenting a watered-down version of what should be done to the country, and that the only true way to benefit America is through even more repression, even more hate, even more division, and by putting cowards like him in positions of absolute power. In an era filled with lies, Fuentes' idea that these retrograde beliefs will somehow lead to a utopian version of America stands out.

It might be the biggest lie of them all.

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We interacted with Nick Fuentes content on TikTok. What happened next was horrifying.

Written by Olivia Little

Published 12/19/25

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm quickly turned our For You page into a cesspool of pro-Nazi content after interaction with Nick Fuentes videos.

Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer and Media Matters' pick for 2025 Misinformer of the Year, is technically banned from numerous platforms. Nevertheless, clips from his show and interviews regularly circulate on social media.

To test what sorts of recommendations a user who sought out Fuentes content might subsequently receive, Media Matters documented a TikTok “For You” page after searching for and interacting with Fuentes videos. We were served an array of videos promoting Holocaust denial, Nazi iconography, and white supremacist groups.

In theory, Fuentes is banned from TikTok. Searches for “Nick Fuentes” or his affiliated “Groypers” (the name given to a loose network of white nationalist trolls who follow Fuentes) return no video results; instead, a community guidelines message notes that “this phrase may be associated with hateful behavior.” However, Media Matters research going back to 2022 shows Fuentes’ fans to be seasoned experts when it comes to dodging moderation and religiously uploading his content in an effort to reach larger audiences.

Despite his ban, accessing Fuentes content on TikTok isn’t difficult. Intentional misspellings, as recommended by TikTok’s suggested search when a user begins to type his name, retrieve videos of Fuentes.

For this analysis, Media Matters documented and assessed the content delivered to a TikTok account’s FYP after engaging with Nick Fuentes content.

First, we conducted the following search queries:

“nick fuentues"

“nick fuentas"

“piers nick”

“tucker nick”

For each search, we “liked” and fully watched the first five results. After that, we began our FYP scroll and documented notable videos. Our feed was almost immediately inundated with extremely hateful content.

Here’s a glimpse at our FYP after interacting with Fuentes content

Holocaust denial

Our account was repeatedly fed videos denying that 6 million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. These videos often referenced a competing, debunked claim that the death toll was actually 271,000, a number commonly cited by Holocaust deniers to downplay the genocide.

271, Holocaust denial

One video using the expanding brain meme format (which illustrates the progression of ideas from primitive to advanced), described those who believe the Holocaust death count was 6 million as “Low iq normies.” The highest tier of supposed enlightenment, “Based Chad,” was seemingly a threat to Jewish people: “We will try again AND succeed.”

Threat, TT

Nazi symbols and slogans

We also observed videos containing Nazi imagery and slogans. For example, one user wore and advertised a mask featuring SS Lightning Bolts, a neo-Nazi symbol derived from Nazi Germany.

SS mask, TT

The phrase “the sun will rise again” has been weaponized to “covertly endorse Nazi ideology and white supremacy.” We were fed videos displaying a variation of this phrase, “The sun is rising,” with comments on the videos seemingly confirming their reference to Nazi Germany.

The sun is rising, TT

Images of the sonnenrad, or “black sun” — an ancient European symbol appropriated by Nazis — also featured in videos.

Black Sun, TT

White nationalist groups

TikTok’s algorithm also served our account white nationalist recruitment videos. The first came from the White Awakening Movement, an account that instructed white Americans to “stay strong” and encouraged white users to direct message the account for additional details on the movement.

WAM, TT

WAM’s account posts videos with phrases like “save your race!” and “join white.” Its account bio includes two thunderbolt emojis, seemingly a reference to SS lightning bolts, and the text reads, “Unification of our people is a step away!!”

WAM account, TT

The other group, posting under the moniker NOVANowUSA, was the National Organization for Vital Action, which promotes “WHITE UNITY.”

NOVA Now, TT

The group’s website claims it is a nonprofit organization cultivating a “genuine pro-White community.”

NOVA now, website

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White nationalists Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes highlight the failures of Trump and the GOP while celebrating a surge in support for their worldview

Spencer credited Fuentes with a “sea change when it comes to young conservatives,” saying, “The kids are on your side”

Written by Jack Wheatley

Published 12/17/25

During their annual joint livestream, white nationalists Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes criticized President Donald Trump's policies and governance, bemoaned the state of the Republican Party, and cheered the continuing shift of conservative discourse in favor of Spencer and Fuentes' ideology, crediting Fuentes as well as a failing Trump administration.

Fuentes described the Trump White House as “a criminal enterprise” and a “total failure in terms of governance.”

Fuentes questioned whether Vice President JD Vance will “be with the Jews or … with the groypers”; Spencer claimed the GOP “fumbled” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s death, which could have been a “Reichstag fire of sorts”; and Spencer used YouTuber Brett Cooper’s latest refusal to disavow Fuentes as an example that “the kids are on your side.”

Here are some of the most notable moments of the interview:

Key moments

At the onset of their conversation, Spencer claimed the “conservative movement has somehow blown the Charlie Kirk death” and argued it “fumbled” what could have been “a Reichstag fire of sorts.” Fuentes agreed, suggesting it was an “extraordinary missed opportunity” to crack down on the left.

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RICHARD SPENCER: Just to give my, I guess, opinion before I ask the question. I feel like the conservative movement has somehow blown the Charlie Kirk death in a way that is almost unbelievable.

It was almost like a giant W was delivered to them on a silver platter, and they have fumbled it. And let me give a few reasons why they've done that. They're not really talking about political violence and the left so much as they are talking — they're trying to sanctify Charlie Kirk, basically. So it all becomes some special thing about Charlie. That he was uniquely wonderful, and that's why they killed him and so on. The Erica Kirk ongoing media tour is fine once, twice it becomes a little old, and on her 14th appearance crying, I find it unbearable and cringe and weird, to be honest. And I don't think I'm alone in that. I think everyone is reacting like that to it.

When Charlie Kirk was killed, there was a lot of tough talk on the dissident right of, you know, I heard this all over the place, “We've got two weeks to crack down. We can destroy the left right now. They hate you. They want to kill you. They want you starving and blah blah blah blah.”

You heard all of that, and it does seem like he missed his moment. It's almost like during – I mean, to use a analogy that I might regret, it's almost like there was a Reichstag fire of sorts, and Hitler decided that he wanted to roast marshmallows as opposed to engaging the Enabling Act. What are some of your thoughts on this in terms of Charlie, what's happened with the right, the response, and all of that?

NICK FUENTES: Yeah. I totally agree. I had the exact same feeling, and I've been thinking about that for the past couple of weeks. It's an extraordinary missed opportunity because, like you said, it's handed to us on a silver platter. Here's a liberal Democrat, goes to a free speech campus event, shoots the number one guy.

And instead of that being the narrative, which is crack down on the left — and it's not like that's unprecedented either. Obama did it, Biden did it, whether it was January 6 or Sandy Hook. Whenever there's a mass casualty event or a tragedy, they very effectively weaponize the bureaucracy, whether they do the backdoor gun control or they get everybody with the DOJ, they always use it to expand liberal power, create a new agency, whatever.

And there was a lot of tough talk like that from certain sections, like Stephen Miller had a speech at the Charlie Kirk WrestleMania memorial, and he goes up and he goes, “You are nothing. You don't build anything.” And he's talking to, like, the anarchists.

SPENCER: Right.

FUENTES: And that's really what all of this is. It's all that and signifying nothing. The sound and fury signifying nothing. All the anger, the performative cruelty. We could just “do things,” and, “You're going back. You've got 50 days.” And, it's just — you might as well have Mitt Romney as president. You might as well have Ron DeSantis. I mean, it's totally toothless.

Criticizing various factions within the MAGA movement, Fuentes claimed the response to Kirk’s death “speaks to how the contradictions of MAGA are going to destabilize the right wing when Trump is gone.” He said 2028 is “going to be wide open,” questioned whether Vance is “going to be with the Jews or … with the groypers,” and claimed: “The right wing is going to devour itself.”

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NICK FUENTES: And I would say maybe to add onto that, it's interesting where it went instead, which is — that was sort of like part one is the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, and he ascended into heaven and everything. But part two is this Candace Owens — we have to talk about the psychosis and this sort of like QAnon on steroids. Like, it went into a direction where it turned inwardly on itself. And I think this speaks to how the contradictions of MAGA are going to destabilize the right wing when Trump is gone.

You're getting, like, a preview because the Trump movement is filled with contradictions and sort of unresolved conflict between, like, the base and the establishment or the donors. And he's been holding it together through the strength of his charisma and his personality. You know, all the contradictions or compromises are washed away. These people just defer to him. They kick it up to him.

And that's really where Charlie Kirk derived his credibility. He was like a Trump sycophant, a Trump glazer, Trump ally, whatever. And with Charlie out of the picture and soon to be Trump out of the picture, it's like you're starting to see now that 2028 is on the horizon, there's, like, all this conflict about, you know, is Erika Kirk an alien or is she a grieving widow? Is, like, you know, is JD Vance going to be with the Jews or is he going to be with the groypers?

So I think it's pointing toward the right wing is going to devour itself, and you got chaos on the left, and now you're going to have total chaos on the right. ‘28’s going to be wide open. So that's sort of what I would add to it is how it seems to be eating itself now.

Spencer claimed the right “never can rule” and Fuentes said the administration has “been a complete failure, total failure in terms of governance.” Fuentes also described the Trump administration as “a criminal enterprise” that “seems to be all about their personal enrichment” and stated that “there is something inherently destructive about Trumpism.” He added, “I don't know that the Republican Party will survive when Trump does not deliver on anything.”

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RICHARD SPENCER: What I'm getting at here is that there does seem to be an asymmetry between left and right in those ways. And there's also this way in which the right can't rule, and it never can rule because it's always the kids at the kids table as opposed to the adults table. It's always the people outside of the restaurant smoking a cigarette, theorizing about how the restaurant is secretly poisoning you, as opposed to the people in the restaurant and the customers and the wait staff and the chef. They, like, you can't have Kash Patel as the FBI director, someone who declared that he wanted to destroy the FBI and make it into a museum. You can't — the outsider can't be the insider. And so, it's almost like inevitably going to turn out this way, where in order to truly reflect and represent the base, you have conspiracy theorists in office. And they're almost, you know, investigating themselves or, like, denouncing themselves. There's this chaotic energy to the right that was amplified by Trumpism that was there in 2016 and I think is even more powerful now. And it just — on some psychic level, it can actually never govern anything.

NICK FUENTES: Yeah. I think there's a lot of truth to that, and you can even tell in terms of how the Trump movement has completely failed to institutionalize any of its reforms. You know, I think that when you look across the board, even these guys like Claremont, let's say, or DOGE that came in with all these PayPal mafia people, is any of that going to be around in a couple of years? Is any of that going to be around after Trump leaves office? I don't think so. I think the ball is going to fall back squarely into the lap of the old guard institutions that hung around, maybe that didn't go crazy. And so, I think you're right.

There is something inherently destructive about Trumpism. It almost seems like, you know, maybe in a roundabout way, they were kind of right about how he, in the end, is going to tank everything, is going to destroy everything. Because you look at where Trump is now, his approval's in the toilet, favorability's in the toilet on all the issues.

And what's more, it's not just that it's conspiracy theorists in the government, but it's like a criminal enterprise, which almost no one's talking about, but they're all looting. And that's really what Charlie Kirk was doing. That's really what Turning Point was is it was like a nonprofit that was hiring contractors that were owned by the board members of the nonprofit. It was just, like, kind of facilitating, it was just like this graft in the same way that the Trump administration with, like, Howard Lutnick and Steve Witkoff and David Sacks, these guys are like, it seems to be like criminals. It seems to be all about their personal enrichment. And I think that the Epstein files is a really good example of that. I think this relationship with Netanyahu and Trump is a good example of that. And not least of all because it's, you know, Jewish or Israeli, but because it shows how the state is just being turned inside out and used by these, like, clearly conflict-of-interest-type people.

And I don't know that the Republican Party will survive when Trump does not deliver on anything. In three years, what's going to be the excuse? You know, in 2020, you could say, well, we had the pandemic, and we need four more years to keep America great. But OK, you got your second shot. You fought back. You learned your lesson, whatever. OK. In three years, if we have a bad economy, we're still at war with Russia, if there's not actually measurable results, and all that happened was, like, rank corruption and disappointment and embarrassment, I don't know that there's going to be a salvageable party.

And you'll see that play out in the primary between someone like — you'll see it in the contradictions in someone like Vance, where Vance is going to try to be everything to everybody. And I don't think he's going to be able to – that's not going to hold together. I think that you're going to wind up with somebody maybe like Rubio or DeSantis, or you're going to wind up, in other words, with like a refortified center right actually. And so, so, yeah. I tend to agree. I think that the whole thing has been a complete failure, total failure in terms of governance.

Spencer described “a tremendous change” and a “sea change when it comes to young conservatives,” specifically crediting Fuentes. He also said that Brett Cooper’s latest refusal to disavow Fuentes is an example showing that “the kids are on your side.”

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RICHARD SPENCER: The last time you were here, we definitely talked about this, of this sea change when it comes to young conservatives. And I think you caused a lot of it. I think you're riding the wave of other things that you didn't cause, but that you're almost like a representative of this. But just speaking as an older man, I could not imagine Brett Cooper being asked, like, “Do you denounce David Duke?” and her kind of like squirming and — “Well, not exactly. I don't want to denounce anyone, and I disagree here and there, but.” Like, I — it would have just been a flat, “He's evil.” And I'm just — I'm not trying to pick on her by any stretch. I'm just using her as an example of the kids are on your side, and it's been a tremendous change. I think kids in general, left-wing kids are even more anti-Israel, but there actually has been a change.

Spencer also claimed that some in right-wing media and politics, including Vice President JD Vance, are attempting to “have their cake and eat it too” by trying to appeal to anti-Israel ideology while enacting pro-Israeli policies. He claimed Vance is trying to “benefit from the energy that pushes against Israel, pushes against Jewish influence altogether. But then they want to have policies that counter it.” He also argued that disavowing Fuentes may be disadvantageous for future candidates, arguing: “You don’t want to countersignal the kids online, many of whom are saying things that you can’t, many of whom are saying things that push directly against Israel.”

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RICHARD SPENCER: So in 2016, the alt-right was pretty unique in being willing to criticize Israel or delve into, quote, antisemitism. That was a new thing that what you would see in among older figures like, say, David Duke, for example, but even he didn't stress that kind of thing when he was running for office. He sounded a lot like a Republican, in fact. But the alt-right going out there, that was something really unique. And I feel like the dam has broken with these young kids.

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So with someone like Vance, he — even though he has denounced you in some way. He denounced me actually very early on, but that was in a different variation. He had a different name at the time, was sort of a friend of Barack Obama, and who knew — but how does someone like that navigate it?

Because it's not just Brett Cooper. It's Donald Trump Jr. It's JD Vance. They want to benefit from the energy that pushes against Israel, pushes against Jewish influence altogether. But then they want to have policies that counter it. They want to have their cake and eat it too. And do you think that they're going to even be able to navigate it?

And just one more thing just to set the conversation off. One of these, like, former aerobics instructors who's now a commentator, she was saying like, “Unless you denounce Nick Fuentes, you will lose. You'll get 10% of the vote. Everyone might — .” And I'm like, I'm not just saying that because you're here and we're friendly. I don't think that's even true. And it might be something closer to the opposite now, where you don't want to countersignal the kids online, many of whom are saying things that you can't, and many of whom are saying things that push directly against Israel.

Spencer and Fuentes specifically criticized Trump's tariff policy, with Spencer calling the rollout “absurd” and Fuentes adding that Trump’s implementation was “totally incompetent,” “totally disorganized,” and “sloppy.” Spencer said Trump’s approach on tariffs seems “haphazard and about deal-making on an almost personal level, where I don't think it's going to accomplish anything.” Spencer also said that there was “no rationale to give Trump the benefit of the doubt” on tariffs, and Fuentes expressed concern that Trump's failures on tariffs and other policies will “actually just fortif[y] that center-left liberalism,” claiming, “We all go down with the ship.”

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RICHARD SPENCER: I can remember throughout my career in paleo-conservatism, there was always some guy who would come up and talk about tariffs and trade policy and industrial policy and so on.

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I'm sympathetic toward this idea, and it almost seems like this idea has been ruined for a generation. The rollout was absurd. They're tariffing coffee that we can't even make here. They're just — there's no real industrial policy, like there was to a degree with the CHIP Act. There's no industrial policy of like let's not just collect money from importers, but let's actually create an industry by subsidizing it, making it a national priority.

It does seem to be like Trump wants to brag about collecting money from tariffs and wants to make deals with other countries. You know, we're going to slap 40% on you. Oh, you come give us something. We'll take it down, maybe bring it up. It seems haphazard and about deal-making on an almost personal level where I don't think it's going to accomplish anything, and there's been no evidence — now granted, it's just been a year — but there's no evidence that this is actually improving our manufacturing base. Manufacturing continues to decline. And there — I've actually heard one justification of it of, you know, if you want to build, say, a couch with leather or something like that, you'll bring in the leather, it gets tariffed, you put it on a couch. It's a few-step process. If you're going to build a car or a computer, this is something that includes thousands of moving parts. Do you want to tariff each and every one of those things as they come in and build it here? No, you want to build it out there and then just tariff it once. It's, if anything, just simpler.

So there seems to be no rationale to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he wants an America of manufacturing and tariffs and unions even and coal miners and whatever, in some dreamy vision of his childhood. But if there's no policy, you sort of destroy the idea in a way. Because if their — if the AI investment bonanza is what is promoting the stock market, it's what — it's how the economy is limping on. If that pops and stuff is just more expensive, then these ideas, which, again, I'm sympathetic toward the ideas, maybe less so now. But these ideas are going to be ruined forever by this man. And I think, actually, that is sad.

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NICK FUENTES: Like you said, the way that the tariffs have been carried out, it's like everything else. It's totally incompetent, totally disorganized, it's sloppy. It seems like it's more aimed at satisfying the approval ratings, checking off a box, than it is actually about a serious transformation of the economy. Because that's really what this entails. If you're going to turn into a mercantilist or a protectionist economy, you're totally changing the structure of what America's economy is in the mix. Going from, like, 10% productive sector to 25%, you know, having an economy dominated by finance, insurance, and real estate to actual manufacturing, that would involve, like, a wholesale change, tariffs, subsidies, a new tariff schedule.

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And what's going to happen is if or when this doesn't work out, this will be scapegoated and blamed. And people will say, remember the tariffs that wrecked the economy? Remember — We tried that. It didn't work. And then it's almost like it would have been better if we never tried it at all than if we tried it and did it the wrong way, and then we get blamed for it.

And I feel that way about the whole enterprise actually, about the whole thing. Because it's like Trump represents not just that, but also the nativist agenda, the isolationism, or America First, whatever, all these different policies. If it's a failure, we all go down with the ship, and it actually just fortifies that center-left liberalism.

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President Donald Trump seized on a shocking and still-developing report about the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, using the moment to settle political scores rather than acknowledge the gravity of the allegations.

Two married pastors at Greg Locke’s central Tennessee church have resigned, claiming the founding pastor created a spiritually abusive and manipulative culture.

One year in, and the club of young Republicans that touts itself as the most MAGA of them all isn’t happy. They’ve gotten what they’ve wanted, and it still isn’t enough. If last year’s iteration of their annual gala was a preview for what life under a second Trump administration would be — ubiquitous authoritarian gestures, Christian nationalism ascendant, and a growing global far-right front with Washington at the center — then this year’s event showed how even some of the president’s most die-hard supporters are pushing for even more.

The Trump administration’s boldest moves against the bureaucracy share a common thread: Mark Paoletta’s signature.

As if exasperated by a quarrel during Thanksgiving dinner, columnist Michael Sean Winters pleads with whoever will listen: “Can everyone please stop talking about ‘Christian nationalism?’”

In recent appearances, Charlie Kirk’s widow has hardly been asked about Turning Point USA’s right-wing mission.

The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

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In a November 20 column, conservative Washington Post opinion writer Marc A. Thiessen — best known for his frequent appearances on Fox News — sounded the alarm about white nationalist Nick Fuentes' relationship with the Republican Party and the MAGA movement. Thiessen warned Republicans that they will suffer politically if they don't distance themselves from "overt racists" like Fuentes.

Thiessen wrote, "Tucker Carlson's effort to bring neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes into the mainstream of the conservative movement is not only morally reprehensible; it is a path to political suicide for the right. Those defending or excusing Carlson's sane-washing of Fuentes need to ask themselves a simple question: Do they want to be a majoritarian movement or not?"

But in an article published on December 13, The Atlantic's Ali Breland laments that Fuentes is expanding, not reducing, his outreach.

Fuentes has a show that airs on the far-right Rumble online. Breland spent 12 hours watching it, and one of the journalist's takeaways is that Fuentes' "momentum" is real.

"Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast at the end of October," Breland explains, "Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party. Fuentes has built an army of fans, who call themselves 'Groypers,' and his style of bigoted trolling has become the lingua franca of the young, ascendant right. Each episode I watched garnered at least 1 million views on Rumble. Fuentes has attracted attention for years, but as he's quick to remind his audience, he's operated from the fringes, pounding on the doors of mainstream conservatism and meeting fierce condemnation."

Breland adds, "Now, Fuentes has momentum — and based on what I saw, he's laying the groundwork to go even bigger."

The Atlantic staffer notes that Fuentes show on Rumble is "at the core of his political project."

"Each episode, after finishing his monologue, Fuentes begins a second segment: a mailbag-esque 'super chat' during which, for a minimum fee of $20, his fans can ask him questions," Breland observes. "Fuentes' financial situation is opaque, but he seems to bring in a significant amount of money from listener questions. I saw him receive sums as large as $1000 from a single donor, identified only by the username Zion_Don, who donated on four of the five nights I watched. In one episode, Fuentes accidentally shared his screen with the audience, revealing that he had made at least $5192 in the span of a few hours."

Breland adds, "The chat is just one of his several revenue streams. Fuentes repeatedly encouraged his audience to buy merch, including a $40 t-shirt that displays his face on the back…. Night after night, I watched Fuentes lay out his strategy for maintaining his momentum…. Fuentes has already infiltrated the right. Now, he's trying to make his movement a permanent fixture of it."

*Read Ali Breland's full article for The Atlantic at this link (subscription required).

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