By Political Editor David Bloviator
with Meta-Content Generator A.J. Liebling
Politically savvy Republicans, angry and disappointed over their lackluster midterm performance, have hit upon a sure-fire strategy for electoral success in 2024:
Nazis.
The leader of the Republican Party, and the overwhelming favorite of Republican voters, formally embraced Nazi leader Nick Fuentes over, wait for it, Thanksgiving Dinner at his pisspoor Palm Beach “club,” a club so exclusive that it will admit anyone who forks over 200 large for membership.
Who's Nick Fuentes?
According to the Trevi Fountain of conventional wisdom Axios, he's “a man labeled a "white supremacist" by the Justice Department, [and] frequently promotes racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” As Nazis are wont to do.
The less tactful Media Matters stated flatly that Fuentes is a “[w]hite nationalist and Holocaust denier.”
Media Matters went on to report that
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| Fuentes? A Nazi? Who knew? |
Nick Fuentes posted on Telegram, “Kanye [West] is going to be cancelled by the Jews for saying that the Jews invented cancel culture” and shared multiple memes celebrating the rapper. Fuentes also streamed West’s music on his Cozy.TV platform while wearing a West-inspired face covering. The title of the stream was “DEFCON 3.”
Say what you will about demented Jew-hater Kanye West, but he knows who his friends are. As a reward for standing loyally by his side, Kanye brought Nazi Nick to Mar-a-Lago to celebrate the true spirit of Thanksgiving – white supremacy – with well-known foe of democracy Donald Trump.
According to the always-lying Tangerine-Faced Grifter, Kanye was invited by Trump to add some celebrity glitter to the usual Mar-a-Lago crowd of used car dealers and their high mileage surgically-improved escorts. Mr. Kardashian supposedly brought Fuentes along as an uninvited guest and Trump and his ace political team waved him over to Trump's table, although the Tiny Toadstool claimed that he had no idea who Fuentes was.
Of course, Trump's hapless stooges tried to lie about Fuentes:
Citing people close to Mr. Trump, some earlier news coverage of Mr. West’s visit to Mar-a-Lago had falsely reported that Mr. Fuentes did not attend the dinner.
When that lie blew up, they trotted out a new series of whoppers, stating that Trump had no idea who Fuentes was and just let him in because he seemed hungry.
Sure. That makes sense.
If a deranged anti-Semite shows up on your doorstep with a friend, would you think that this guy had graduated from Reb Solovetchik's yeshivah? Don't tell us that Trump was accompanied by an aide who who knew exactly who Fuentes was:
The fourth attendee at the four-person dinner, Karen Giorno — a veteran political operative who worked on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign as his state director in Florida — also confirmed that Mr. Fuentes was there.
Trump, desperately eager to flaunt any celebrity, no matter how loathsome, who will appear in public with him for free, planted his two Jew-hating guests on the patio. The dinner started out cordially enough:
A source familiar with the dinner conversation told Axios that Trump "seemed very taken" with Fuentes, impressed that the 24-year-old was able to rattle off statistics and recall speeches dating back to his 2016 campaign....Trump at one point turned to Ye and said, "I really like this guy. He gets me," according to the source.
He sure does, Donald, he sure does.
As with any other interaction with Trump, the dinner soon derailed:
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| "Kanye brought a couple friends to dinner" |
Ye, who has lost major sponsorships over his anti-Semitism and recent far-right associations, has said he wants to run for president in 2024. The rapper claims Trump started "screaming" at him at the dinner and told him he would lose — "most perturbed" by Ye asking Trump to be his running mate.
But that was just the comic relief.
The unfunny part happened next, when Trump's embrace of Nazi Fuentes could no longer be denied. The now-frightened Tiny Toadstool fired off a series of incoherent messages claiming that he didn't know who Fuentes was and that anti-Semitism didn't come up at the dinner (how nice!).
His handlers, meanwhile, spun credulous reporters like Maggie Haberman, claiming that the entire incident reflected nothing more than the usual chaos of Camp Trump:
Even taking at face value Mr. Trump’s protestation that he knew nothing of Mr. Fuentes, the apparent ease with which Mr. Fuentes arrived at the home of a former president who is under multiple investigations — including one related to keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago long after he left office — underscores the undisciplined, uncontrolled nature of Mr. Trump’s post-presidency just 10 days into his third campaign for the White House.
Sure, Maggie, that's got to be the reason. The reason couldn't be that Trump agrees with Fuentes on core neo-Nazi principles like white supremacy and Jew hatred, could it?
After all, didn't Trump move quickly and decisively to disassociate himself from Fuentes's Nazi ideology?
Um, no, he didn't.
He hasn't said one f***in' thing that would lead even the most naive observer (like Ms. Haberman) to conclude that he had any problem with the substance of Fuentes's loathsome Nazi views.
Two likely reasons why: (1) Trump is a white racist and anti-Semite, as he has repeatedly proven, and (2) Trump believes that racism and anti-Semitism are winning issues with the Republican base.
It's explanation number 2 that intrigues us the most. If it is incorrect, one would expect that Trump's political rivals would be falling all over themselves to condemn Fuentes and all the awful things he stands for.
Thus far, the number of Republican politicians doing so remains at, let's check here, running one more data batch, 0.0.
In fairness Sen. Wilfred M. “Profiles in Courage” Romney was too busy overseeing the illegal aliens he hired to lubricate his car elevator and install a new luggage rack dog crate, but he'll get around to weighing in, we're sure.
Surely the Republican Jewish Coalition would fearlessly call out Trump for happily consorting with open and notorious Jew haters?
Oy vey.
And what about Trump's leading rival and God's gift to Florida, Ron DeathSantis? He certainly isn't going to base his campaign on the same hateful white supremacist garbage that Fuentes is peddling, is he? Let's ask the reporters who know him best at the Florida Phoenix:
DeSantis has one goal: become our first full-bore White Nationalist president. To achieve it, he’ll borrow Donald Trump’s playbook, whipping up white folks’ fear that their America — the one in which they were unambiguously in charge — is being taken over by feminists, gays, Marxists, Muslims, secular humanists, climate change activists, the “woke,” the over-educated elites, and migrants.
Oh. That sounds a lot like – Nick Fuentes.
Wait until the national media figures out that all leading Republicans espouse an ideology not meaningfully different from the Nazi revival swill of Nick Fuentes and his fellow insurrectionists.
Keep waiting.
Wait some more.
Right now, though, the wise white political hotshots are running with two stories: Trump is a laughable buffoon who is tripping all over himself (the same narrative that they embraced to disastrous effect before the 2016 election) and DeSantis is a master politician with broad national appeal. Here's how the creepy white supremacist, hate-monger, and Christian dominionist is treated by The New York Times:
One of the most anticipated, Gov. Ron DeSantis, received a raucous reception for a keynote address that outlined how his success in Florida could be a nationwide formula for Republicans. “The state of Florida is where woke goes to die,” Mr. DeSantis declared.
Raucous? Like Nuremberg Rally raucous?
If woke means supporting democracy, diversity, and tolerance, then you would think this would not be a good thing for our Republic and our media would want to point this out while there's still time.
Alas they are too busy putting out a different message: even if the entire Republican Party has become a bastion of white supremacy and fascism, the Democrats aren't without sin either:
I spent four years covering the Trump WH and two years covering the Biden WH. What’s fascinating is that they both lie, albeit in v different ways. Trump team was shameless, whereas Biden team is too cute by half. https://t.co/AphB967gHE
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) November 22, 2022
On the one hand, the entire Republican Party is mouthing Nazi ideology. On the other, Joe Biden wouldn't let reporters bother his son Hunter during the wedding of Hunter's daughter.
Both Sides.
When they make the documentary about the media's failure to cover the Republican infatuation with white supremacy and fascism, we've got the title: Triumph of the Willfully Ignorant.
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