Rod Dreher’s Checklist on Groyperism

American Thinker ^ | 13 Nov, 2025 | James Soriano

[MtnClimber]

Social critic Rod Dreher lives in Budapest, Hungary, but was in Washington last week for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s meeting with President Trump. Orban, Dreher, and others later met with Vice President Vance in his study for a 90-minute conversation that ranged from geopolitics to the future of Christianity in Europe.

On his Substack blog (“Rod Dreher’s Diary”), Dreher relates how he used a moment alone with the vice president to press home to him the dangers posed by “America First” social media commentator Nick Fuentes and the “Groyper” movement associated with him.

Now it’s not exactly news to say that a civil war is being fought daily within the ranks of American conservatives. Many pundits have raised the alarm that the Republican Party is vulnerable to being co-opted by a radical ideological outlook associated with Generation Z upcomers, or Zoomers.

Dreher says he talked with many of these Zoomers, and the added value of his essay is his insights into these questions: Who are these people, and what do they want?

Who they are is “Groypers,” a subset of the Zoomers that is both politically active and penurious. Groyperism is a nativist, and some would say, a white-supremacist, ideology in which anti-Semitic attitudes are on open display. Groypers, and many of their less radical Zommer cohorts, hold traditional conservatives in contempt for being “too moderate.” They are given to admiring the tenacity of the far-left fringe for pulling the Democrats in their direction.

Many of the Zoomers identify as Christian conservatives, but Dreher warns, “If you think being Christian is some kind of vaccination against anti-Semitism, you’re wrong.” Even young Christians “are neck-deep in anti-Semitism.”

They get their inspiration from social media influencers. Many are fans of Fuentes. What they like about him, Dreher tells us, is

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: radicalideology

[MtnClimber]

Dreher asked one Zoomer what the Groypers actually wanted; that is, what are their demands? The reply was, “They don’t have any. They just want to tear everything down.” Nihilism on the far right mirrors that on the far left.

[FenwickBabbitt]

I just pray that we don’t eventually end up in a Spanish Civil War sort of scenario where the Communists and the Fascists fight it out while forcing everyone else to get involved: the liberals and secularists on the side of the Communists and the conservatives and Christians on the side of the Fascists.

[Alberta's Child]

I read an article that covered this among the influences in the 2024 election. One of the biggest changes in political outlook between 2000 and 2024 involved young men, and the underlying theme for most of them was a complete loss of faith in American institutions.

And it was driven by a pathological resentment of how these institutions completely failed during the COVID debacle.

[greenbrier]

The wish to destroy without any thought to constructing. Nihilism is ignorance, plain and simple. Ignorance paired with envy and lust.

These are the result of the failure of public education and the corruption of the 'fourth estate'.

In light of the upcoming season --

"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased"

[Salman]

What happens when you indoctrinate them starting in kindergarten that this is not their country and they have no future?

[ConservativeMind]

Aside from Jewish people, as a group, greatly favoring Democrats in elections, what is the supposed reason given for issues with Jews?

Women, as a group, vote for Democrats more. That doesn’t mean you hate women.

[MtnClimber]

I can easily believe that the handling of the COVID outbreak is a big part of why many have lost confidence in the institutions.

[FreedomPoster]

A follow up on your theme from earlier this week.

Thanks again for that.

[pierrem15]

They want to tear everything down because every institution in society stands in their way demanding feminized modes of behavior, castigating white males Americans as oppressors undeserving of advancement and passing them over in favor of foreigners, minorities and women.

So they see no way forward except by destroying every institution.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[aquila48]

What’s a “groyper”?

[wardaddy]

https://youtu.be/NVnCvGdDFOw?si=4b6wX8xn3BdOjMkQ
Akaad daily

Decent take of observance

[MtnClimber]

What’s a “groyper”?

"Groypers are a far-right group associated with the ideology of white nationalism and Christian nationalism, often linked to the activist Nick Fuentes. They are named after a variant of the internet meme Pepe the Frog and have been known for their provocative actions at conservative events to promote their "America First" agenda."

[wardaddy]

What you describe in Spain defies the self serving political model most here ascribe to now

The non linear one

[cgbg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

[cgbg]

https://rumble.com/v70vq3w-tucker-carlson-interviews-nick-fuentes.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_v

If you have a busy schedule just pick a random ten minutes—you will get the idea.

[wardaddy]

After Party podcast with Emily jahinsky covers this today btw

https://youtu.be/ExUoRUgAN1s?si=GCcx888113v7myhR

She’s getting pushback on comments

[wardaddy]

I’m a white Christian nationalist
I believe in preserving western civilization

Unabashedly