Nick Fuentesthe hateful leader who dined at Mar-a-Lago last year with Donald Trump and Kanye West, calls for a genocide of “perfidious Jews” and other non-Christians. “When we take power,” he said on December 8. direct“They must be sentenced to death from the start.”
Fuentes leads an “America First” movement of young white nationalists who call themselves “Groypers.” Fuentes, one of the country’s most insidious racists, denies the Holocaust and increasingly advocates a violent form of Christian nationalism, as his remarks on Friday illustrate. “These people who suppress the name of Christ and who suppress Christianity,” he said, “must be absolutely annihilated. »
This dark call for violence was first highlighted by Right Wing Watch.
Despite his overt hate speech, Fuentes has made inroads into Republican politics. Fuentes hosts an annual America First political action conference — which he organizes as far-right counterprogramming to the more conventional CPAC. Fuentes’ event attracted speakers including Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).
During rapper Kanye West’s anti-Semitic blitz in late 2022, Fuentes was a paid political adviser to West and accompanied his November visit with Trump to the former president’s Palm Beach estate. Fuentes was also on camera when West infamously declared his love for Hitler during a December 2022 interview with Alex Jones.
This week, Jones was reinstated on the X platform by Elon Musk – despite the massive judgment against him for lying about the Sandy Hook massacre. Fuentes’ Groypers Now Want Their Hate Leader To Do It Too regain access to a Twitter account. (Fuentes was briefly reinstated after Musk bought Twitter, but he was resuspended a few days later.) They started a hashtag #FreeNick, and an acolyte tweeted that he was holding a hunger-strike until Fuentes got his account back.
For now, Fuentes remains exiled from Musk’s good graces. But the hate leader is always welcome in Texas politics. In October, Fuentes was arrested meeting with influential state Republican leaders in Fort Worth. In response to the controversy, the Republican Party of Texas introduced a resolution earlier this month, which read in part: “The Republican Party of Texas (will) have no association with any individual or organization known to espouse the anti-Semitism, pro-Nazi sympathies. , or Holocaust denial.
The resolution failed by three votes.
