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Young Far-Right Influencer Rising
- Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old white nationalist who runs a popular live-streamed show and leads the Groyper movement.
- His online presence and rhetoric have shifted far-right ideas into mainstream MAGA conversations.
Campus MAGA To Controversial Broadcaster
- Fuentes rose to visibility after wearing a MAGA hat at Boston University and debating on campus, becoming a campus political celebrity.
- He later worked at a conservative startup and was ousted after calling CNN executives should be deported or hanged.
America First Taken To An Extreme
- Fuentes takes Trump's 'America First' and extends it to an exclusionary, racialized ideology focused on white identity.
- He combines misogyny, anti-immigrant and antisemitic narratives to radicalize younger conservatives.