Posted on 11/03/2025 3:45:42 PM PST by Miami Rebel
Nick Fuentes, the highly controversial white nationalist roiling the MAGA movement, took a victory lap over Vice President JD Vance, following his interview with Tucker Carlson last week.
Fuentes has long been a fierce critic of Vance and has made deeply racist comments in the past about Vance’s interracial and mixed-faith marriage. Carlson’s platforming of Fuentes on his show has led to an escalating battle on the right as many argue that such blatant hate speech should remain outside the realm of mainstream MAGA, whereas Carlson has let it in.
“He’s getting squeezed because the Groypers are on the one hand saying, ‘Hey, listen, fat boy, we want America first. You want to run for president? We want to hear you say America first.’ And on the other side, he’s got his donors, and they’re saying, ‘They’re horrible anti-Semites. You have to disavow them. You have to forcefully condemn them. Condemn Tucker. Condemn the Groypers,’” Fuentes began, referring to his followers, who are widely known as “Groypers.”
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Fuentes’s rising influence on the right has been on vivid display in recent months as he’s joined prominent podcasts and is reaching an ever-growing audience. Following his appearance on Carlson’s show, many of Fuentes’ shocking past statements, ranging from Holocaust denial to sexual violence to his insults of Vance, have gone viral yet again, highlighting why he has long been relegated to the fringe of the right.
Below are some of those clips:
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Except for places like this he is completely unknown and he says or does means nothing here so that means he means less than nothing in the rest of the universe.
Another figment of the communionists’ imagination.
What I do know is that Vance is 100 percent America First, and also supports Israel.
He is the 2028 Ross Perot.
Look for the MSM to promote him everywhere.
He is BERY strong on that.
The Democrat media lapdogs are pushing this for their own reasons.
But...but...he had such a thoughtful discussion for two hours with Tucker Carlson. Doesn't that negate all of that? Don't we have a lot to learn from a self-admitted, bigoted nutcase with a long and consistent history of insane remarks that only get more insane with each passing day? I mean, his IQ is probably very high!
I intend to vote for Vance in 2028 - I’m increasingly impressed by the man, his positions and his story. The fact that this guy Fuentes has made derogatory remarks about his wife and marriage makes me despise him, and increasingly feel contempt for Tucker Carlson for nurturing this a-hole.
When JD and his family last visited India his children were dressed in Indian clothes.
That provided Fuentes ammunition for a long rant....
Wait, what? Is he roiling the right or is he influencing the right?
Make up your mind. Toss a coin if you have to. Just don't call "heads I win, tails you lose".
Ammunition for what?
The reason you regularly defend a bigot is apparently because you yourself are a bigot.
I don't think so.
That being said, those demanding JD Vance, Kevin Roberts and Megyn Kelly ostracize Tucker Carlson are engaging cancel culture tactics that are just as repugnant as nonsense Fuentes is spewing.
There is all-out attempt by the Republican establishment to turn the party back into the party of George W. Bush using Fuentes and Carlson to do so.
I explained what happened in the Vance incident.
I neither defended nor attacked Fuentes on that issue.
“There is all-out attempt by the Republican establishment to turn the party back into the party of George W. Bush”
Unfortunately it is much worse than that....
But Perot was right. We still are fighting the concerns he brought forth. NAFTA, free trade, outsourcing, naitonal debt and deficits, we are here because it was the loser dems and gopers who let down the country.
You’ve defended him on multiple occasions. And your comment indicates a defense by claiming his rant had credibility.
But regardless, you don’t deny he’s a bigot - so why do we “have a lot to learn” from him? And how is it relevant if he has a high IQ if he’s a bigot?
You can do a lot of really bad and destructive things with a high IQ - simpletons aren’t as capable of it. Karl Marx probably had a very high IQ. That doesn’t make his economic movement and its aftermath any less destructive.
Nick Fuentes is a scumbag.
Another poor decision by Tucker to give this clown the time of day. The scum certainly doesn’t do anything to help conservatives.
And there was Tito Puente, who played timbale for Miami !
Here is my view on Fuentes:
1. He is brilliant and articulate and a leader for many young male conservative activists. They have legitimate grievances which have not been adequately addressed by the Republican establishment.
2. Their movement is growing and has the energy of young people.
3. Name calling is not going to deter them. In fact it will make them stronger.
4. I am not going to generate a laundry list of thousands of statements he has made over the years and whether I agree or disagree with them. I am a nobody old timer—so bottom line it does not matter what I think about those.
5. Fuentes is following the classic “hero’s journey” in some ways similar to that followed by President Trump. President Trump has been called every name in the book and came out stronger for it. I expect that will happen for Fuentes as well.
If that is a “defense” of Fuentes so be it.
Bigotry is not a legitimate grievance. They need to see psychiatrists at least in the proverbial sense and get over themselves if they believe what this guy says is "legitimate." Grievance culture is not legitimate. In other words - they need to grow up.
Your "view on Fuentes" sounds exactly like those on the Left who praise people like Mamdani. And it has every bit the same level of credibility...and the same origins - people who want to live in an alternate reality of grievance culture.
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