Nick Fuentes

You have to look at it, not in retrospect, because hindsight is 20-20.

And so looking back, you could say they made a terrible mistake because look at sort of what they provoked or what they catalyzed.

But at that time, you got to consider I'm 18 with no following, with no network.

I'm coming from the suburbs of Chicago.

My parents didn't go to college.

I have no connections.

And so for them, it was very easy that if they detected that a promising young guy was going to become anti-Israel in the conservative movement, they could crush that person easily and grind them under the heel.

So they sort of were alerted, oh, there's a precocious young guy that isn't on board with Israel.

We'll keep an eye on him.

And if he gets too vocal or popular...

We'll cut him down.

We'll crush him.

Because at this time, as you know, in 2017, it's a very different time.

2016, 17, any criticism or dissent on the subject was a death sentence.

You became radioactive, unhirable, blacklisted.

And that's exactly what happened.

And basically from then on, it was just this escalating series of blacklisting, censorship, hit pieces, rumors to try to ostracize me from the movement.

While you're a college student?

Yes.

As a freshman, yeah.