Robert Draper
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And without him, it began to feel like the conservative movement or the MAGA movement was not so much cast adrift, but reverberating with all of these tensions.
I think the first moment at which these discontents, disagreements became very public was when Tucker Carlson hosted on his show the white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Fuentes had been considered a sort of verboten figure in the conservative movement, a guy they very much wanted to keep at the margins.
because he has casually issued some unabashedly anti-Semitic and racist and sexist commentary.
He has suggested that the numbers don't add up when it comes to six million Jews perishing in the Holocaust.
He has said outright that Blacks were better off under Jim Crow than they are today.
He has made all sorts of obnoxious statements regarding women and how they should...
essentially be used as chattel.
And most of all, he has not just spoken critically of Israel in the Israeli government, but he has honed in on what he calls the problem of organized Jewry in America.
and has been unapologetic in his belief that Jews are a problem, unassimilable and incorrigible in their unwillingness to assimilate, and that that presents America with its foremost problem.
who is arguably the most influential conservative voice in America, a person who remains very close to President Trump through the thick and thin of their disagreements, and who is especially close to Vice President J.D.
To be offering Nick Fuentes an opportunity to air his bigoted musings was...
the reason why so many people viewed this interview with great alarm.
Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old right-wing influencer who had been more or less on the scene since 2017.
He was an early and loud supporter of President Trump, but not one of any particular consequence.
In 2017, he began to pop up in the media because at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that included the notorious chant, you will not replace us, Jews will not replace us.
Yes, Fuentes was among them.