The GOP’s Groyper Fringe Became Its Future
The rise of Nick Fuentes and the GOP’s radicalization reflects decades of intellectual groundwork and the material decline that pushed a generation toward conspiracy-laden populism.
Nick Fuentes is simply a signpost of a shift that began decades earlier, as right-wing dissidents built a vision of far-right politics ready to take over when the material conditions ripened. (Zach D. Roberts / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“The Republican Party . . . they’re atheists, gay, feminists. We need to rally the base against the establishment,” said white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes in an October 27 YouTube video that now holds over six million views. “The base is extremely conservative, extremely anti-left. . . . If we don’t conserve the demographics, forget the rest.”
Sitting across the table was Tucker Carlson, still among the most popular conservative pundits in the country, nodding along with Fuentes’s assessment.
“Worrying about who lives in your country — is that really too extreme?” Carlson asks incredulously. “You’re clearly ascendant. They tried to silence you, and it hasn’t worked.”
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