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Republicans Have a ‘Groyper’ Problem
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 14, 2026 | Jack Butler

Posted on 11/08/2026 4:49:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The specter of “Groyperism” is haunting Republicans.

This is the term used to describe fans of Nick Fuentes, the racist, antisemitic streamer with a small but devoted online following. It’s sometimes used as a catchall for the menagerie of disturbed, young, mostly male right-wingers who seem increasingly involved in Republican politics. They’re becoming a midterm issue.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) recently accused his opponent, Rep. Mike Collins (R., Ga.), of having hired “half the Third Reich” in reference to bizarre revelations involving Mr. Collins’s staff. One had been in a groupchat with Mr. Fuentes. Another had shared images of himself wearing what appeared to be Ku Klux Klan robes on social media.

“The Groyper problem is real,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told me. “I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right in the last two years than at any point in my lifetime.”

It shows up in his X replies anytime he’s supportive of Israel. It even shows up in his congressional office. Mr. Cruz described some recent trouble filling a vacancy because half the applicants said they couldn’t stomach his support for Israel. “It’s not difficult to find my views on this topic. They are not a secret. I am not shy about it,” he said. “If 50% of the people applying and saying, ‘I want to work for you,’ are expressing these sentiments, what do you think the 22-year-old staffer who’s working for a run-of-the-mill congressional member is expressing or not expressing?”

Speculation over how deeply Groyperism has penetrated the ranks of Republican staffers in the legislative and executive branch can be both vague and fierce. Estimates of the afflicted range from “no one” to “pretty much everyone.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: groyper; nickfuentes; tedcruz; texas

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1 posted on 11/08/2026 4:49:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Groyperism has penetrated the ranks of Republican staffers in the legislative and executive branch “

See....I can take things out of context, too.


2 posted on 11/08/2026 4:54:12 PM PST by goodnesswins (Most Congress Critters should be referred to as what they are....LOOTERS)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The first things they do when you become effective is:
  1. Call you a Nazi.

  2. Conjure up a sex scandal from thirty years ago.
Step 2 comin' right up.
3 posted on 11/08/2026 5:01:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes." --Mikhail Gorbachev)
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To: All

Both parties have an Anti-White problem


4 posted on 11/08/2026 5:07:23 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s only a problem if the media harps on it. And if it can be attached to Republicans, they will. Anti-Semitic? Are they organizing Kristallnacht bicycle protests of Jewish businesses?


5 posted on 11/08/2026 5:18:22 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fuentes is a nobody and most people do not even know who he is. A whole article about him is ridiculous. The GOP has problems and it is more a neocon elitist problem than anything else. Picture vermin like our illustrious Senate leader. That varmint is a problem, a big one.

Both parties suck.


6 posted on 11/08/2026 5:19:07 PM PST by dforest
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To: dforest
Fuentes is a nobody and most people do not even know who he is. A whole article about him is ridiculous.

Alt-Right/podcasters were critical in getting young men to vote for Trump in 2024.

This time, they didn't show up. And we noticed that.

7 posted on 11/08/2026 5:22:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Groyper?

Get serious.

Most Republicans - including me - do not know, or care, what a Groyper is.

If someone is anti-Jew, or anti-Israel, they have no place to reside in the Republican Party.

8 posted on 11/08/2026 5:24:48 PM PST by zeestephen (2024 Trump Landslide - Kamala Harris Lost By 230,000 Votes In WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

BS - Republicans have a do nothing problem. They won’t fight for conservative values they don’t want to fight at all. They want to just be the party of losers.


9 posted on 11/08/2026 5:25:00 PM PST by Skywise
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They do that because the GOPee won’t stand up and defend itself. I’ll tell you another thing the RINO’S Dance around and that’s the fact this entire mess is mostly the fault of Thune. That ass hat caused this entire mess by not passing he save act. I don’t want to hear ‘He didn’t have the votes” because didn’t have the votes only because he didn’t want them,


10 posted on 11/08/2026 5:27:46 PM PST by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can't wait. Go nuts kids. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
“I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right in the last two years than at any point in my lifetime.” -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R TX)

But it's not 1/100 of the virulently antisemitic left.

11 posted on 11/08/2026 5:27:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MinorityRepublican
Alt-Right/podcasters were critical in getting young men to vote for Trump in 2024.

Fuentes did not support Trump in 2024.

Fuentes is a creature of the Deep State.
12 posted on 11/08/2026 5:35:41 PM PST by Antoninus (Confusion and disorder to the Left.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Re: "Alt-Right/podcasters were critical in getting young men to vote for Trump in 2024."

"This time, they didn't show up. And we noticed that."

Bogus...

Who did these young white males vote for in 2026?

LOL - The Democrat Muslim candidates?

13 posted on 11/08/2026 5:37:02 PM PST by zeestephen (2024 Trump Landslide - Kamala Harris Lost By 230,000 Votes In WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: zeestephen

Groypers are the Ribbentrops. And DSA are the Molotovs. Both are infested with Israel hatred. Common ground for both of them


14 posted on 11/08/2026 5:47:49 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The headline is misleading and disingenuous.

These Groypers are not Republicans; in fact, they’re trying to undermine President Trump and the Republican Party.


15 posted on 11/08/2026 6:00:47 PM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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To: MinorityRepublican

Groypers are just an updated version of the KKk. They pretend to be Repubicans and they say and do terrible things in the name of Republicanism. At voting time, they more than likely vote Democrat.


16 posted on 11/08/2026 6:09:33 PM PST by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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To: Jonty30

Abdul’s mother is a jihadist fundraiser but someone on the staff of a Republican is ina group chat with Fuentes . Double standard much?


17 posted on 11/08/2026 6:27:55 PM PST by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to kill.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It also has a Wall Street corporations selling out America for cheap foreign labor and DEI problem.

Get rid of the corporate problem and the groyper problem will fade.


18 posted on 11/08/2026 6:28:51 PM PST by chickenlips (Evil never sleeps. Just look at Hakeem Jeffries' eyes.)
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To: brookwood

I never gave a double standard. I just explained that the groypers are serving the same purpose as the KKK used to serve. They exist to cast Republicans in a bad light to draw voters away from Republicanism. They are bad people who cast a bad reputations to draw votes away from them. That is the kkk used to do amd that is what the groypers do now.


19 posted on 11/08/2026 6:44:23 PM PST by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Its the globalist, RINO Wall Street Journal issuing slanted narratives for propaganda purposes

“Groyper” is known to about 1 out of 1000 Republicans. its not even “a thing.”


20 posted on 11/08/2026 7:18:07 PM PST by PGR88
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