Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes is triggering a MAGA civil war

Last edited Sun Nov 9, 2025, 09:18 AM - Edit history (1)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/08/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-hate-speech/

Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes is triggering a MAGA civil war
The far-right influencer’s return to X has fueled a resurgence that is driving a wedge through the right.
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EST
By Will Oremus

Four years ago, Nick Fuentes was unwelcome pretty much everywhere. The young far-right influencer was barred from nearly every social media platform and an array of payment processors, either for violating hate speech policies or for encouraging rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A 2022 documentary by a sympathetic filmmaker called him “the most canceled man in America.”

Now a person who once called Adolf Hitler “awesome” has more than 1 million followers on Elon Musk’s X. He recently recorded a cordial interview with Tucker Carlson that more than 5 million people have watched. And he finds himself a central figure in an online battle over the future of the American conservative movement.

The resurgence of the 27-year-old Fuentes, who has argued that immigrants and “organized Jewry” are conspiring to extinguish the white race, has set off bitter infighting among conservative influencers over whether he should be tolerated or denounced. For President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, which has decried what they say is the overzealous policing of speech, Fuentes’s newfound prominence presents a tough question: Is there such a thing as “too extreme” anymore?

Fuentes, whose followers call themselves “groypers” after a frog meme they have adopted, makes no bones about where he stands. In a March episode of his podcast, streamed on the conservative site Rumble, he boiled down some of his core views: “Jews are running society, women need to shut the [expletive] up, Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part, and we would live in paradise. It’s that simple.”

....

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/10/nick-fuentes-texas-meeting/

What to know about Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist who was just hosted by a major Texas PAC leader
Fuentes often praises Adolf Hitler and has publicly fantasized about marrying a 16-year-old. Last week, he visited the office of a Texas operative who runs a deep-pocketed political group.
By Robert Downen | Oct. 10, 2023, 1:45 p.m. Central

...

Fuentes, 25, often praises Adolf Hitler and questions whether the Holocaust happened. He has called for a “holy war” against Jews and compared the 6 million killed by the Nazis to cookies being baked in an oven. He wants the U.S. government under authoritarian, “Catholic Taliban rule,” and has been vocal about his disdain for women, Muslims, the LGBTQ+ community and others.

“All I want is revenge against my enemies and a total Aryan victory,” Fuentes said last year.

Fuentes has fantasized about marrying a 16-year-old when he is older because that’s “right when the milk is good,” and he is a self-described “proud incel” who reportedly prohibits his followers from masturbating or having sex — among other directives that former members have described as cultish. “Incel” is shorthand for “involuntarily celibate,” and there is a long history of “incels” latching onto white supremacist ideologies that provide them someone, often Jews, to blame for their lack of romantic success. The neo-Nazi gunman who killed eight people at an Allen shopping mall this year was also an “incel.”

Fuentes became more prominent in mainstream media during the 2020 presidential election, and was a key figure in the “Stop the Steal” movement, often pairing his baseless claims about a stolen election with white supremacist conspiracy theories that claim there is an intentional, Jewish-driven effort to replace white people through immigration, interracial marriage and the LGTBQ+ community. Two days before the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, Fuentes suggested killing legislators who were unwilling to overturn the election results; on the day of the riot, he told his followers that they “must be prepared” to “take this country back by force.”

...