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Nick Fuentes, vit makt-anhängare och podcastprofil, talar på ett möte till stöd för Donald Trump 2020. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

Extremhögerprofiler vänder sig emot Trumpkampanjen

Flera viktiga allierade till Donald Trump inom den amerikanska extremhögern har börjat ifrågasätta hans kampanj i sociala medier, skriver Washington Post.

”Du håller på att förlora stödet från människor som trodde på dig... du behöver de människorna”, skriver Candace Owens, en ytterhögerprofil med över fem miljoner följare på X.

Trump sökte stöd hos extremhögern inför valet 2016 och 2020. Nu menar många tunga namn inom rörelsen att Trumps kampanj försöker övertala honom att tona ned sin retorik.

Vit makt-profilen Nick Fuentes, som åt middag med Trump på hans klubb Mar-a-lago 2022, skriver att Trumps kampanj är ”på väg mot en katastrofal förlust” om den inte svänger högerut.

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Nick Fuentes
Wikipedia (en)
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political pundit and live streamer who is known for his white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic views. A former YouTuber, his channel was permanently terminated in February 2020 for violating YouTube's hate speech policy. Fuentes has promoted conspiracy theories against Jewish people, denied the Holocaust, and called for a "holy war" against Jews. He has been described as a neo-Nazi by various sources. Fuentes identifies as a member of the incel movement, a supporter of authoritarianism, and as a Catholic integralist and Christian nationalist. Collaborating with Patrick Casey, a former leader of the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa in 2019, Fuentes's followers, known as Groypers, began to heckle Turning Point USA's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr. In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival CPAC, Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Fuentes attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and was also an attendee and speaker at events preceding the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He has encouraged the use of jokes and irony among white nationalist groups, stating that it "is so important for giving a lot of cover and plausible deniability for our views". In November 2022, Fuentes, along with Kanye West, met with former U.S. President Donald Trump for a private dinner. The meeting received widespread condemnation and was considered unprecedented due to their antisemitic views, with The New York Times describing it as "what may be the most discomfiting moment in U.S. history in a half-century or more" for American Jews.
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