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Before last week, most Americans had never heard of Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist Holocaust denier who recently dined with former President Donald Trump and Kanye West, the Grammy-winning rapper-turned-outspoken antisemite, at Trump’s Florida estate.
Since his pre-Thanksgiving meal at Mar-a-Lago, however, the 24-year-old’s name and laundry list of bigoted beliefs have been the subject of countless mainstream news articles, cable news segments and late-night talk show monologues.
For extremism experts who study the far right and have been following Fuentes’s activities for years, the news of his meeting with Trump was particularly alarming, even in light of the former president’s own history of emboldening extremists. The meeting seemed to demonstrate the expanding influence of a white supremacist provocateur and his close proximity to people with enormous platforms.
Caitlin Dickson
Caitlin Dickson·Reporter
Sun, December 4, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Nick Fuentes. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Rainmaker Photos/MediaPunch /IPX via AP, Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP)
Nick Fuentes. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Rainmaker Photos/MediaPunch /IPX via AP, Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP)
Before last week, most Americans had never heard of Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist Holocaust denier who recently dined with former President Donald Trump and Kanye West, the Grammy-winning rapper-turned-outspoken antisemite, at Trump’s Florida estate.
Since his pre-Thanksgiving meal at Mar-a-Lago, however, the 24-year-old’s name and laundry list of bigoted beliefs have been the subject of countless mainstream news articles, cable news segments and late-night talk show monologues.
For extremism experts who study the far right and have been following Fuentes’s activities for years, the news of his meeting with Trump was particularly alarming, even in light of the former president’s own history of emboldening extremists. The meeting seemed to demonstrate the expanding influence of a white supremacist provocateur and his close proximity to people with enormous platforms.
“Fuentes is about as extreme as it gets, said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “Can you imagine if Bush had sat down to dinner with a Klansman? It’s the same thing.”
“This isn't just some conservative activist,” said Kristen Doerer, managing editor of Right Wing Watch. “No, he's a white nationalist. He's a misogynist. He is pro-authoritarian. He's antisemitic. He's a Christian nationalist. The list goes on.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dangerou...-trumps-dinner-with-fuentes-ye-191752435.html
Since his pre-Thanksgiving meal at Mar-a-Lago, however, the 24-year-old’s name and laundry list of bigoted beliefs have been the subject of countless mainstream news articles, cable news segments and late-night talk show monologues.
For extremism experts who study the far right and have been following Fuentes’s activities for years, the news of his meeting with Trump was particularly alarming, even in light of the former president’s own history of emboldening extremists. The meeting seemed to demonstrate the expanding influence of a white supremacist provocateur and his close proximity to people with enormous platforms.
Caitlin Dickson
Caitlin Dickson·Reporter
Sun, December 4, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Nick Fuentes. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Rainmaker Photos/MediaPunch /IPX via AP, Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP)
Nick Fuentes. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Rainmaker Photos/MediaPunch /IPX via AP, Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP)
Before last week, most Americans had never heard of Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist Holocaust denier who recently dined with former President Donald Trump and Kanye West, the Grammy-winning rapper-turned-outspoken antisemite, at Trump’s Florida estate.
Since his pre-Thanksgiving meal at Mar-a-Lago, however, the 24-year-old’s name and laundry list of bigoted beliefs have been the subject of countless mainstream news articles, cable news segments and late-night talk show monologues.
For extremism experts who study the far right and have been following Fuentes’s activities for years, the news of his meeting with Trump was particularly alarming, even in light of the former president’s own history of emboldening extremists. The meeting seemed to demonstrate the expanding influence of a white supremacist provocateur and his close proximity to people with enormous platforms.
“Fuentes is about as extreme as it gets, said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “Can you imagine if Bush had sat down to dinner with a Klansman? It’s the same thing.”
“This isn't just some conservative activist,” said Kristen Doerer, managing editor of Right Wing Watch. “No, he's a white nationalist. He's a misogynist. He is pro-authoritarian. He's antisemitic. He's a Christian nationalist. The list goes on.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dangerou...-trumps-dinner-with-fuentes-ye-191752435.html