“I thought it was an important moment for this segment of the Right Wing, which is far more concerned with culture and heritage than tax policy, to come together in a show of solidarity for our cause."
(Nick Fuentes, America First Charlottesville "Unite the Right " rally 2017)
A "call to arms" for all Virginia Republicans.
All Virginia Conservatives and The State GOP with every political apparatus mechanism at its disposal must disavow the toxic, racist, anti-semitic, homophobic and xenophobic "alt right" Groyper movement and Nick Fuentes.
"Alt right" conservative extremists calling themselves "groypers"- supporters of the alt-right movement and white nationalism are led nationally by twenty something, college drop out Nick Fuentes. Fuentes calls his ilk the "Pepe soldiers" after the Pepe the Frog illustration commonly scene on supporters pages and twitter feeds in support of a white, male, heterosexual dominated American culture where white nationalism reigns supreme. Furthermore, Groypers believe in strict immigration restrictionalism as well as anti-gay and anti-Jew policies.
Fuentes supporters believe that America owes no allegiance or support for Israel in direct contrast to the majority of Conservatives and the Republican Party. They are diehard Holocaust deniers and believe and advance every single Jewish conspiracy theory around.
“They will never engage with ideas or people who haven’t been green lighted by this cabal of Zionist & big business interests that control the American Right. This is why you’ll never get anything more than sterilized, inoffensive ‘conservatarianism’ that serves the status quo.” (Nick Fuentes)
Instead offensive, toxic, hate rhetoric reigns with Nick Fuentes and the alt right on social media platforms and numerous blog and news feeds.
Fuentes is known for pushing the euphemism that Jews during the Holocaust were like "cookies backing in the oven". His support for the NSM (National Socialist Movement) and (LS) League of the South white separatist groups should alarm every single Virginia conservative.
Does the Republican Party really need this influence?
While many Conservative leaders in both the Party and the media reject Nick Fuentes, people like Michelle Malkin appear now to be embracing his movement. Many see that Malkin may simply be hedging bets. The bestselling author was once prominent in the Conservative ranks but has slowly disappeared from the media landscape. Routinely appearing on major conservative talk shows and radio casts for years, Malkin now is nothing more than a "back bencher" of conservative relevance.
Much of this may be her refusal to denounce the alt right and people like Fuentes.
In truth, Malkin has alienated fellow conservatives in the media space like Ben Shapiro (@BenShapiro) and others. Shapiro's radio show has been exposing the alt right for two years in terms of its white nationalism and how this band of "groypers" fuels the Progressive narratives against true conservatives in the Republican Party. Some claim that Fuentes is a mere plant bent on undermining the Republican Party from within.
If you look at history, Fuentes and his followers simply are following the path that Hitler took in Germany to rise through the political system and ultimately winning control of party forces and ultimately politically securing leadership. It was not something that happened over night. It took almost a decade and a half post World War I. It was accomplished while majority of the German population never took Hitler and his support seriously. This appears the case with Fuentes.
Fuentes is using social media platforms to create a hate-based community of support set upon blaming others for their lot in life. The community is mostly young but their are forces from the mature Neo-Nazi elements in America that see America First as a vehicle to grow their own ranks. Fuentes ever the attention seeker is more than willing to be complicit to this end.
Michelle Malkin in effect has disavowed Shapiro for sounding the alarm to all Conservatives regarding Fuentes and his support for the most extreme proponents of hate throughout the word. Malkin really has fallen from grace in the time of Trump that many considered she would become a prominent figure of the conservative movement.
Instead Malkin has been virtually non existent during the Russia hox and impeachment. Malkin simply may have ultimately been her own worst enemy through her own poor judgement in not condemning Fuentes or her belief she could capitalize on what she may have perceived as a growing movement.
Virginia Republicans ought not make the same mistake. The State GOP must disavow the alt right and Nick Fuentes and do so publicly.
It is never easy for an political party to turn votes away intentionally or to disavow a group or block of voters but this is exactly what Republicans must do. In order to grow the Party as the Virginia GOP must do in order to be competitive in statewide elections there is NO place for the alt right or the influence of Nick Fuentes and his followers.
Fuentes has supported such extremist as neo-Nazi Gliad Atzmon. London today is ground zero for a growing anti-immigrant, anti-jew movement that fortunately was just diminished by the recent elections and gains made by the Conservative Party. Nevertheless, Fuentes is on board supporting extremist glorified by radical American academia like Atzmon author of "The Wandering Who?"
"I believe that from certain ideological perspective, Israel is actually far worse than Nazi Germany."
(Gliad Atzmon)- supported by John Mearshemier Professor Political Science University of Chicago and co-author of "The Israeli Lobby"
The Progressives seek to characterize this as "Trump's America". Of course they are wrong. The super majority of Americans are not aligned with any of this. That being said, its very hard to make the case against "The Squad" and other Progressive anti-semites when Conservative groups refuse to disavow Fuentes and America First. Neo-Nazi mentality was with here long before Trump and will remain long after he leaves office. The effort today to tie it to Trump is simply political expediency by the left but why help the cause by having associations on any level with such groups or sites that promote such movements.
Virginia witnessed backlash to Corey Stewart (R) with his tenuous association with Jason Kessler and an attempt to leverage alt right fringe groups to win the Republican nomination to run for Governor. Stewart would lose of course and then lose again for a bid for US Senate against Tim Kaine. Was it a political calculus by Stewart or his true belief systems that led him in to the arms of the alt right extremists?
Frankly, much of politics is about optics. Much of the lose Virginia Republicans across the Commonwealth have experienced can e laid in part at the fee of Corey Stewart and the decisions made in his campaigns to advance alt right extremism in the name of Virginia Republicans.
There is little place or should be little place for the alt right in the Virginia GOP and no credence should be provided to candidates endorsing such belief systems. There is nothing "conservative" about the alt right. Permitting the State GOP to be co-opted by such groups is a threat to all Virginia Republicans who continue to see Virginian move further and further left.
The biggest example of this today is the necessity for the 2A Gun Sanctuary Movement in Virginia. The sanctuary movement is a direct result of the State GOP not recognizing that the messaging has had no clarity and the Party allowed its opposition to define it. Now, thousands of Virginians on their own are taking to rallies rejecting not only the Progressives but also a Republican Party of Virginia that has lost is way.
One way the State GOP can reset the compass and find its way back is to publicly reject the alt right and the influence of Nick Fuentes and America First and make it clear there is no place for such hate in the Republican Party of Virginia.
To not do so is to usher in a decade of Republican defeat. A proposition which in truth is very appealing to many in the alt right movement.
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