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Category Archives: Nick Fuentes
MAGA’s Jew-Hatred Component Are Tiny
LF: “Nobody with anything to lose sides with Nick Fuentes. His Jew-hating crowd are marginalized losers and only a tiny portion of MAGA.” ChatGPT says: The panic about Fuentes often outstrips his real reach. Here’s how I’d map it. Fuentes’s … Continue reading
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Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
I wonder where Nick Fuentes might figure in this story? I just read the spellbinding 2025 book by historian Molly Worthen. ChatGPT says: Nick fits the book’s frame as a minor but revealing case of outsider charisma in a fragmented … Continue reading
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How Do You Deal With A Nick Fuentes?
ChatGPT says: Countries usually cycle through a small set of strategies when they deal with loud political agitators who pull attention, mobilize resentment, and create headaches for the ruling class. Nick Fuentes fits a long line of figures whose influence … Continue reading
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Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson & The Campy New Grub Street
Tim Page writes in the WSJ Nov. 14: By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred. His pessimism was fully formed by then: The hero, a gifted … Continue reading
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Is Nick Fuentes A Hitler Apologist?
Nick says many things for shock value. I’ve seen the clips where he praises Hitler and Stalin. I don’t think he’s primarily pushing Nazism. He’s primarily pushing for attention and if praising Jesus and Buddha would do it, he’d do … Continue reading
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Decoding Power
01:00 Decoding Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16482602:20 Comic Sarah Cooper: Dating at Work, Coming Out as Black, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqQxfUqpWQ14:00 Nobody Wants This, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26933824/50:00 Descriptive vs Normative, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1648671:04:40 The Sanity Interview: Heather Mac Donald, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DSZS7K4BI1:11:00 Carl Schmitt’s top ten quotes on power 1:32:00 Trumpcare Should … Continue reading
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The Age Of Fuentes (11-9-25)
01:00 I don’t want to talk about Nick Fuentes, but I accept the reality that we live in the Age of Fuentes.05:00 Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Sabotages America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16477207:00 Death By Lightning Is The Latest Example of Hollywood’s ‘Magic Negro’ … Continue reading
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Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Sabotages America
I agree with Ben Shapiro about almost everything, but I can’t stand his dumb commentary. 0:24–0:42 – “Groypers… admire Hitler and Stalin.” Overbroad labeling collapses a messy coalition into one motive bucket. If you want to sustain “admire Hitler and … Continue reading
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The Stress Reward Cocktail For Edgy Streamers Like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Richard Spencer
LF: “What does it feel like physiologically for Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and company when they step out of polite society and say things that virtually everyone with power will condemn? What would evol psych say?” … Continue reading
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Should Nick Fuentes Be Tolerated Or Denounced?
The Washington Post reports: “The resurgence of the 27-year-old Fuentes, who has argued that immigrants and “organized Jewry” are conspiring to extinguish the white race, has set off bitter infighting among conservative influencers over whether he should be tolerated or … Continue reading
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