Mainstream Journos Simp for Nazi Twink

Akin to Glenn Greenwald drooling over fresh feet

Nick Fuentes, the “Nazi twink” influencer who recently told “highbrow Groyper” Tucker Carlson about his love of Joseph Stalin, is quickly becoming the mainstream media’s favorite “conservative.” Earlier this week, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg anointed Fuentes as the “successor” to murdered activist Charlie Kirk, and blamed the Republican Party for fueling his rise.

The Times column was accompanied by a photo some argue was deliberately selected to promote anti-Semitism by making Fuentes, 27, look way cooler than he actually is. One of many examples: Fuentes has argued that the “only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.”

The Times has a history of elevating fringe racists and other right-wing cranks in an effort to disparage normal conservatives. Alas, the paper also has a history of lauding the socialist achievements of Fuentes’s favorite leaders, Stalin and Adolf Hitler, while downplaying the brutality of their regimes. It’s not immediately clear which tradition Goldberg was honoring in this instance. “Why does the Times want [Fuentes] to look cool?” wrote Hill columnist Robby Soave. “Do they want him to be the next Charlie Kirk? Why would that be the case? Hmm. Perhaps there’s a lesson to be drawn there.”

In any event, the Times columnist assured her readers that Fuentes, who commands an army of morbidly obese basement dwellers known as “Groypers,” was one of the most popular figures in conservative politics. His stock has “risen higher than ever,” she writes, “revealing a seemingly unstoppable ratchet of radicalization on the right.” As evidence, Goldberg cites the musings of Rod Dreher, an obscure blogger based in Hungary who has written extensively about genital abnormalities and the otherworldly demons who keep plotting to turn him gay. Dreher said he was “told by someone in a position to know” that roughly 30 to 40 percent of young GOP staffers were fans of Fuentes.

Axios reporter Mike Allen interviewed Fuentes for his own article about the squirrelly nerd’s allegedly influential role in the intra-Republican debate about whether or not to embrace Mamdani-style anti-Semitism. “One side is obviously dug in on supporting Israel,” Fuentes said. “I think it’s going to get ugly.”

Some have likened the mainstream media response—desperately trying to anoint Fuentes as a conservative figurehead—to the anti-Israel journalist Glenn Greenwald’s kinky proclivity for worshiping feet.

Fuentes weighed in on Tuesday with an incoherent anti-Trump rant in response to the off-year election results. “These fucking dorks and losers, these out-of-touch theater kids … they are miserable,” he said. “They know that MAGA is dead.” It was unclear if he was referring to his own supporters, who are primarily composed of miserable theater dorks. Fuentes went on to mock Trump voters and accuse the president of being “owned by Israel.” He claimed, unpersuasively, that he and his Groyper minions were “having fun.”

Even less persuasive are the suggestions that Groyper virgins are “ascendant” in Republican politics. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts apologized to staff on Wednesday for denouncing the “venomous coalition” attacking his “close friend” Tucker Carlson for hosting Fuentes on his show without challenging his toxic views. During the interview, for example, Carlson promised to “circle back” after Fuentes admitted being a “fan” of Stalin. He never did.

Roberts, who initially blasted Carlson’s critics for trying to cancel “our friends,” acknowledged there was nothing venomous about criticizing “softball interviews” with anti-Semites. “I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy,” he said, according to a video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon after Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, threatened to fire anyone who leaked details of the meeting.