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The Ghost of a Flea4/29/2024 8:31:09 pm PDT

Daily Wire CEO Tells White Supremacist Nick Fuentes He’s ‘Talented’ And ‘Very Funny’

From the beginning of the month…but not the 1st.

During a livestreamed conversation with white supremacist Nick Fuentes last week, the CEO of the Daily Wire, a major right-wing media outlet, praised the prominent fascist influencer and offered only mild criticism about some of his political views — a stark difference from how he has spoken about Fuentes in the past.

On March 25, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing joined Fuentes on X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces), a live audio chat room. Boreing told Fuentes he listens to Fuentes’ show “quite often” and that he thinks Fuentes is “very funny” and one of the “most talented” political influencers, even if he is “very concerned” about some of what Fuentes says.

Cutting to the chase: the reactionaries want to win and making space for fascists is a step in that direction. There are no red lines to the right, just this kind of appease-the-baby euphemistic “concern.”

The right has a very straightforward common cause: there is a hierarchy and that is good, and the more important fight is against all forms of equality. They’ll go after the center right the same way…by pointing to an uncomfortable form of equality—trans rights, the idea that civilian Palestinians are not an acceptable loss to “beat” Hamas—and playing into something more sinister…directly dangerous. The scripts are pretty easy to imagine because we’re seen them play out already in the 00s.

Much like some Germans back in the day, all the players imagine that once power is secured they’re clever enough to implement their particular pecking order, cutting out the other visions of caste. We as a democracy lose regardless of which group wins.