Although Fuentes has many dedicated fans, who call themselves “Groypers,” mainstream conservatives have long ignored him. Even as the Republican Party has come to embrace more extreme ideologies, he has been seen as too radioactive: Fuentes has praised Hitler on multiple occasions,

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

As previously mentioned, Nick Fuentes opened up about his dinner with Trump and Kanye West. According to the far-right political commentator, the dinner was "sort of interesting." Fuentes revealed that the rapper had love and admiration for President Trump. He additionally said,

The Republican senator from Texas fanned the flames of his ongoing feud with the conservative podcaster Thursday.

The Berwyn white nationalist, who one researcher says is positioning himself as the "alt-Charlie Kirk," has made a series of podcast appearances recently, including on Tucker Carlson's show this week.

But Smith’s cartoonish naïveté betrays a deeper problem: a rising antisemitism crisis on the MAGA right that is largely of the party’s own making, one that risks raising people like Fuentes to new heights of influence. And the GOP’s elites are now struggling to contain it.

White nationalist political commentator Nick Fuentes shared an X post on Tuesday that said he’d been “banned from Spotify” shortly after his podcast, America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes, was “the #1 trending podcast in America” on the platform.