Raheem Kassam
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They can do and credit to people like Nick Fuentes because he's kind of a nobody from nowhere who's come along and has had this entire movement up in arms talking about him and worrying about him.
And he's just this kind of performative theater guy who says stupid things on air for clicks.
And he gets the attention of these people and they go, oh, my goodness.
Isn't this crazy that somebody might interview him and talk to him and whatever?
And it's just absolute nonsense.
And actually, I will say this as well.
Robert Draper, somebody, one of the very few people in this town who I can bear to spend time with over at the New York Times, wrote a very interesting profile piece about Nick Fuentes a couple of months ago.
So, you know, if you want to control the narrative, if you want to control where politics goes, if you want to control the culture, then it is
incumbent upon you to be interesting, to be a leader, to be thoughtful, to challenge the status quo.
And the problem these people here on Capitol Hill have and have always had is that they are vacuous.
They are vacuous people.
They are devoid of ideas and they deserve the irrelevance in history that they are soon to find themselves with.
Steve, so yeah, let me conclude on the last segment as well for people based on what we were saying.
Because I don't want people getting the wrong idea either.
All of this performative Nazi and neo-Nazi stuff that these guys are doing online, obviously we don't care about that.
But here's the thing, and we know this because we were the guys once, and still are really, that were decried as the fascists and the extremists and the crazies and the nutjobs and whatever.
you know, whatever, um, is that there's a reason that people, and I, you know, I'm aware that people are put off by a lot of the performative elements of this stuff.
I am too.
Um, and, and by the same with Tucker, by the way, a lot of the stuff that is purely performative and he goes, Oh, I never knew about that.
And you know, he knows about it and they go, Oh,