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"Five days a week, thousands of fans gather online to watch Nick Fuentes hold
court about the dangers of non-white immigration, feminism and “organized
Jewry”. Usually dressed in a dark suit and tie, he lectures to his far-right
followers, known as “Groypers”, about what he argues is the insufficient
radicalism of Donald Trump’s Republican party and what he describes as the
perfidies of the state of Israel and its American supporters.
Fuentes’s fixation with Israel is not rooted in concern about the war in Gaza
but a belief, in his telling, that Jews are responsible for most of society’s
problems. Fuentes, who is 27 and lives in Illinois, has called Adolf Hitler
“really fucking cool” and compared the Holocaust to the baking of cookies.
Despite that – and despite having said that the Republican vice-president, JD
Vance, is a “race traitor” for marrying an Indian American woman – Fuentes has
ascended in recent weeks from the influential but unacknowledged outer dark of
the American right to a position within striking distance of the mainstream
Republican party. He has been interviewed on several major platforms in rapid
succession, culminating in a friendly, two-hour chat last month on Tucker
Carlson’s popular online talkshow. He and Carlson discussed a variety of
subjects, including their shared dislike of Christian Zionists. Fuentes also
said, casually, that he was a fan of Joseph Stalin.
The result of that interview has been a bitter and widening civil war within
the American right that has exposed longstanding fissures – between
conservatives and populists, Zionists and Israel skeptics, mainstream Maga
right and far right – as well as revealed the extent to which a Republican
party that has been flooded in recent years by extremists now seems unable to
contain them, or even agree if it should. A power struggle already under way
inside many rightwing organizations, people familiar told me, has now spilled
into the open."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
