Saagar Enjeti

last week from Rod Dreher, who wrote that he was told by an older insider that 30 to 40 percent of Gen Z staffers in a conservative world and here in D.C.

were Gropers.

And in that, it was sort of conflated with Gropers slash fans of Fuentes.

Those are kind of different things.

Like it's I'll get into that in just a second.

Yeah, because if you just see someone who's laughing at Nick Fuentes as opposed to with Nick Fuentes, there's a distinction, and that distinction might be genuine anti-Semitism.

So it's hard for, I think, particularly anyone older than the age of 40, but maybe even the age of 30, to go through these layers of irony and find the people who, what does Fuentes tell them to say, are hiding their power level, whatever.

So the question is, has Fuentes successfully infiltrated professional D.C.

and Republican circles as he has said he has done and as he has planned to do?

I think the answer to that question is probably in small measure, yes.

But I do not think it's anywhere near 30 to 40 percent.

My background is in the conservative youth movement, do tons of work with students, have met with like hundreds of people for coffee in the last like 10 years.

And all that is to say, I wanted to

just get a sense from other people, other younger people on the right, what they thought the real number was.

So I had like seven sources that I talked to kind of across the board, everywhere from the White House, Capitol Hill, conservative youth groups, all of that.

And every single person I talked to was like, that number is crazy.

Pretty much everybody agrees that there is some small number.

One person I talked to in the administration was like, it's not double digits, which I know is cold comfort to people.

They're like, oh, you're saying that 9% of young Republican staffers are Groypers?

I doubt that it's like even that high.