Coleman Hughes: How Nick Fuentes Does It He has slipped into the mainstream by presenting one version of himself to popular podcast hosts and another to his base.
“How has Nick Fuentes achieved this remarkable infiltration into the culture?” (America First Foundation)
The legendary singer and actress Barbra Streisand once sued a photographer for putting a picture of her cliffside mansion on an obscure website, arguing that it threatened her privacy. Her actions backfired spectacularly. Before the lawsuit, only six people had downloaded the photo. After the lawsuit, hundreds of thousands of people had seen it. The “Streisand effect” has since become a generic term for when an attempt at censorship achieves the opposite of its goal. This article is featured in U.S. Politics. Sign up here to get an update every time a new piece is published. If I were writing a glossary entry on the Streisand effect, I wouldn’t put a picture of her next to it. I would put a picture of Nick Fuentes. Fuentes launched his career as a college freshman in 2017 with a barely watched show called America First. In Fuentes’s telling, he was a mainstream Republican in high school. Then Donald Trump’s rise radicalized him against immigration, and the experience of being ostracized by fellow Republicans for questioning Israel radicalized him against Jews as a whole. Whatever the truth of this origin story, it didn’t take much for Fuentes to transform himself from a mainstream conservative into a lover of dictators (including Communist ones), an across-the-board bigot, and a textbook antisemite...
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