Nick Fuentes is a right-wing podcaster and provocateur who harbors antisemitic, racist, and explicitly white nationalist views. He has claimed that "Jews are running society" and "black people should be in prison for the most part." He is avowedly pro-Hitler and questions whether 6 million Jewish people really died in the Holocaust. He has stated his goals thusly: "All I want is revenge against my enemies and a total Aryan victory."
One would hope to find Fuentes toiling in relative obscurity, known only to the most studious observers of weird internet subcultures. Unfortunately, Fuentes is shaping up to be the year's major conservative breakout star, well positioned to be one of the spiritual successors to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and organization leader who was murdered on September 10. Kirk himself despised Fuentes, of course, and worked with other leading conservative voices like Ben Shapiro to sideline and marginalize him. For Fuentes, the resentment was mutual, and his followers—the "groypers"—would harass staffers at Turning Point USA, Kirk's youth organization.
