Nick Fuentes, Political Radicalization and Demographic Shifts
Nick Fuentes describes his entry into politics as an 18-year-old during the 2016 Donald Trump election and the rise of the alt-right. He details his radicalization in response to what he characterizes as anti-white and anti-Christian sentiment in mainstream culture and the peak of wokeness. The discussion explores the political ramifications of white Americans becoming a minority and the perceived failure of the Republican establishment to address these demographic changes.
nick fuentes· donald trump· alt-right· blm· demographic shifts· political correctness
00:00 Over the years, we've had sort of a strange relationship over many different issues and things like when we did Ye 24 and a lot of different things. And I know that we have our disagreements. I think we generally agree on most things though. And I know that some of your people criticize me, some of my people criticize you, but I think there's always been a mutual respect because we're both on the same journey in a sense. We're both taking the hits and we've both been kind of through the gamut of what they've thrown at us. And I think you weigh more than me, the way they're coming for your company and this billion dollar lawsuit is totally insane. So I totally agree with that. As far as where the right wing is headed with the anti-white stuff and how I feel about it,
00:44 I started my show 10 years ago because as the youngest guy, as the 18 year old, now I'm not even the youngest guy. I'm a younger guy, but I'm not the youngest. But as an 18 year old coming of age during the Trump election and the rise of the alt-right, and really at the, I would say at the peak of wokeness, which is synonymous with anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-straight white male. People my age at that time just had our finger on the pulse. We said our entire life we had been indoctrinated with this diversity stuff. And increasingly it was becoming less pro-Black and Brown and much more anti-White. And people forget how bad it was. I mean, I have to remind people, I have to remind myself that in 2017, it felt like history was moving in one direction and nothing on earth could change its course.
01:33 And it was gonna be more anti-white, more anti-male, more anti-Christian, more degenerate. And it did keep going in that direction for many years. It went from pro-gay to pro-trans. It went from pro-black to this BLM insanity. Everything was getting worse. And I remember at that time, it straight up radicalized me. Because I said anti-white, hey, I'm white. And I'm proud to be white and white people built the country, all the kind of stuff that is mainstream now. Back then it was super controversial to say something is wrong here. Like why is it okay to only attack white people and say white people
02:11 should have fewer kids, they're going extinct and that's a good thing. They're gonna become a minority and then Republicans can never win again. I said this is shocking and outrageous and it seems like no one's talking about it. I distinctly remember realizing that whites would become a minority in America and And thinking about the political ramifications first, thinking about how that would empower Democrats forever. And I remember thinking, am I the only one who has discovered this? Like why isn't anyone doing anything about this? I remember reading like Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan and those people at that time and saying, there has to be surely some effort by Republicans to reverse this or fight it and it just wasn't happening. I had to go out and do it myself.
02:57 And I did that by supporting the Trump movement and then making it a little edgier, a little bit more radical. Let me ask you this then. Do you think there's a second, third order thing with the social engineers? Or are they that arrogant to think this wouldn't have a backlash? Because now the backlash is so powerful, I know they're scared. I think it really was arrogance. And maybe you would ascribe more of an intention behind it than I would. But I think at that time it was just straight up hubris because the left was totally dominant and they controlled Hollywood and they controlled the media. And the Republican Party was a horrible brand. In 2014, who wanted to be a Republican? Nobody.
03:37 The Republican Party was corny and stodgy and lame, and people thought it represented the rich and crazy evangelicals. I mean, that's what Hollywood would say about it. It was a horrible brand. Even Republicans didn't like it. And then Trump came around in 16 and turned all that on its head because he's a celebrity billionaire, objectively cool, and he basically took the Republican Party and made it the winning brand and defeated the Democrats. And now he's giving up so much of that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, he's forfeited that. You know, but so no, I think that they really just got too cocky and they made a lot of unforced errors and they gave up the game to Trump. And over 12 years, 10, 12 years, Trump has totally flipped that whole- Well, let me ask you this. I'm sure you've noticed something, you talk about it. Have you seen the record numbers of black people, Hispanics and others that listen to you and me that actually get it? I mean- I have, yeah. What's going on there?
04:39 Well, I think that it's funny because there's a lot of people that are attacking- I think it's a sense of fairness. I don't know that it's fairness. I think it's more that they're not woke. Honestly, I think that blacks and browns are not woke like white people are. And by that I mean, if you and I say- They're not into the leftist religion. Well, the guilt and the sensitivity, like with white people, if you say something racist, sexist, homophobic, you know, beta males and white women are gonna freak out. They're gonna say, why did you just say, I can't believe you? And I think that brown and black people just don't have that because black people have been used to doing whatever they want forever and they could say whatever they want and do whatever they want. And so when a white guy kind of gives them the same energy, like, hey, I'm not one of these woke tards, they love it. And I think Hispanics, it's the same way.
05:30 And they're also pretty conservative. I know that's like a meme, but it's true that Hispanics and blacks have always been very socially conservative. They're not common. The communists got pissed they couldn't get the blacks to become communists in this country. Yeah, I mean, in many ways blacks are socialist, but they're not down with this LGBT feminist stuff. They're not down with the pronoun, they're not with that. And yeah, they want more government programs, they think everything should be free, but they also don't wanna be preached to by some white Jewish liberal woman or some white beta male bisexual guy. They don't wanna deal with that kind of thing. And I think maybe they don't agree with me on everything, but they say, I like this guy because he doesn't care. He doesn't care about the political correctness. In many ways, that's why they respect Trump. They kinda just respect someone that's a G, someone that doesn't care as much about that stuff. So I think it's an attitude maybe that they like.
