Anderson: What Nick Fuentes got right

Anderson: What Nick Fuentes got right

Nick Fuentes is accused of many sins. Neo-Nazism and white supremacy. Antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Calling Adolf Hitler “cool.” It would be easy to look at Fuentes and dismiss him as another online idiot and racist, making money by saying crazy things. But I think this would be a categorical mistake.  After Fuentes visited Iowa State’s campus in 2019, the Daily published an article titled, “Fuentes should have been ignored.”  While this ma…

Wokeism Died… And Gave Rise to the Alt Right

“Woke” is dead. And its collapse has not led to moderation, but to something equally damaging: a growing alt-right style of political discourse, exemplified by figures like Nick Fuentes. This movement is rapidly moving from the fringe toward the mainstream. In this piece, I attempt to explain how and why ‘wokeism’ imploded and argue that its failure directly enabled the rise of a new form of radical right political influencers. First, though, wh…