"Nick Fuentes, a far-right streamer who first got national attention after he attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has recently made another reëntry into the national discourse, after he was interviewed, late last month, by Tucker Carlson. From one point of view, Fuentes is simply the latest in an increasingly long line of internet-coded demagogues who have threatened to tear the Republican Party apart and take it in a darker, more bigoted direction."
"Or is he someone whose clout actually depends on attention from those with wider audiences-from Carlson, yes, but also from people like me, in the national press? Put differently, is he simply the streaming era's version of the largely inconsequential Richard Spencer, another white nationalist and avatar of the alt-right (the term already feels dated), who titillated the media more than a decade ago?"
Nick Fuentes is a far-right streamer who first gained national attention after attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was recently interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Fuentes espouses white nationalist, misogynist, and antisemitic views and has expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and skepticism about the Holocaust. His platforming by prominent media figures raises questions about the Republican Party shifting toward darker, more bigoted directions. His apparent popularity forces a choice between viewing him as reflecting a latent cohort of young men or as someone whose influence depends on amplification by larger audiences and institutions. Conservative organizations are experiencing internal conflict over how to respond to such platforming.
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