How Is Donald Trump Any Better Than Nick Fuentes?
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“He’s gonna be the GOP nominee in our lifetimes, isn’t he,” one wag tweeted over the weekend, in reference to Nick Fuentes.
Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi, is all over the news right now, having been profiled in recent months by a bevy of mainstream media outlets, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and of course, interviewed by Tucker Carlson.
As reports emerge that “between 30 and 40 percent” of young Republican staffers on Capitol Hill are fans of Fuentes, there is much wringing of hands on the more mainstream sections of the American right, with the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro and The Free Press’s Coleman Hughes launching broadsides against Fuentes and trying to inoculate the US conservative moment from his ‘Groyper’ pals.
But here’s my question: how is Nick Fuentes worse than.. Donald J. Trump?
After all, the president of the United States has been a proud and open racist for decades now. He was paying for a racist and violent ad in the New York Times nine years before Fuentes was born. He was being investigated for racism against Black renters by the Nixon Justice Department 25 years before Fuentes was born.
In recent days, Trump has turned up the dial on his racist and bigoted demagoguery. In a two-minute rant at the end of a North Korea-style two-hour cabinet meeting last Tuesday, the president lambasted the 250,000 Somalis living in the United States, the vast majority of whom are US citizens. “We don’t want ‘em in our country,” he said not once but five times, telling Somali-Americans “to go back to where they came from.” He called Somalis in the US “garbage” four times in just seven seconds, as AP noted.
The president then doubled down on his anti-Somali bigotry in an Oval Office exchange with reporters the next day, saying Somalia is “not even a nation, just a people walking around killing each other.” He called for Rep. Ilhan Omar, a US citizen and congresswoman, to be “thrown the hell out of our country.” He accused Somali-Americans, as a whole, of having “destroyed Minnesota” and “destroyed our country.”
Even by Trumpian standards, which include praise for neo-Nazis as “very fine people” and a dismissal of
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