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From the New Yorker: “My problem with Trump is not that he’s Hitler,” the right-wing streamer Nick Fuentes has said. “My problem with Trump is that he is not Hitler.” In this week’s issue, the reporter Antonia Hitchens provides a deeply reported, must-read portrait of a political movement known as the Groypers (named after “a meme of a fat, sluglike frog with interlaced hands and a smug expression”), a growing mass of young people whose gleefully angry white-nationalist ideology has spread from the fringes of the internet into mainstream Republican politics. At the center of this groundswell is Fuentes, whose nightly streaming show attracts hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Remember: you helped unleash this disaster. I hope you know how to bottle it up again.
Who would have thought the party of Lincoln would be the existential threat to America democracy.