Robert Costa on Nick Fuentes (nonfiction)
Twitter posts by Robert Costa about Nick Fuentes and the GOP.
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For over a decade, since I began tracking it, there has been a rising, online extreme media landscape that now churns daily, but it is often on closed social media groups outside of media glare. It is in these spaces where unvarnished hate about Jewish people, racism is rampant.
Nick Fuentes, while young, has gained major traction in these spaces. He links himself and his followers to core tenets of Trumpism by chanting "America First" and uses monologues in the style of Alex Jones to gain notoriety with a cackling, racist, and grim take on modern U.S.
People in the GOP have noticed. Fuentes is not someone who has slipped under the radar. If you follow the base, you can’t somehow not see it, just like you can’t pretend groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers aren’t gaining ground in these same online spaces, too.
And some Rs are more overt than others in winking at, or meeting with, these types. But it’s often in the style of Rep. MTG earlier this year, when she spoke at Fuentes event. A brush up against that bloc, then quick distancing. And the cost of the brush up? Not a career killer…
In fact, as @axios notes, months after appearing with Fuentes, "Greene… is one of the most influential Republicans in the House" and a key player in keeping Trump base close to the House GOP leadership.
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- Post @ Twitter (26 November 2022)