Nick Fuentes Is Worse Than ‘Just’ A White Supremacist
While Donald Trump keeps groping for a plausible excuse for hosting Nick Fuentes for a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, what should be front of mind is that no decent person would want to be within 100 feet of this character, much less break bread with him at one’s presidential residence.
My colleague, Conover Kennard, has already posted some very disturbing aspects of Fuentes’ racist fascism. But Monday night, Rachel Maddow put together a montage from Right Wing Watch that really drove the point home about who and what he is. It also speaks volumes about Donald Trump and the Republican party that hasn’t screamed from the rafters to disavow the guy.
In this case, the whole is definitely more than the sum of its parts.
After decrying the popularity of abortion, gay sex, feminism, sex out of wedlock and contraception, Fuentes declared, “That’s why we need a dictatorship.” He gave a hideous chuckle after that remark, before adding, “We need to take control of the media, we need to take control of the government and force the people to believe what we believe.”
Yes, the racism is terrible, too: