![]() Ignore the left.”Īs the year progressed, Gosar doubled down. We will not let the left dictate our strategy, alliances and efforts. “ I’ll say this: there are millions of Gen Z, Y and X conservatives. “Not sure why anyone is freaking out,” he tweeted on J une 28. “America First does not mean Sieg Heil,” tweeted one evangelical radio host, “but Gosar is willfully aligning with those who act like they think it does.” Ultimately the event was not held, but Gosar dismissed calls to denounce the groyper leader, making a case for inclusion that would soon be echoed elsewhere on the post-Trump Right. That summer, the Gosar campaign seemingly planned a campaign fundraiser alongside Fuentes, leading to significant national outcry, including from some conservatives. “So why not take that energy and listen to what they’ve got to say?” “We thought: There is a group of young people that are becoming part of the election process, and becoming a bigger force,” Gosar told The Washington Post. The next day, Gosar’s defense of attending the conference suggested that he considered the groypers a worthwhile constituency within a big-tent conservative coalition. (Credit: America First Updates/Telegram)ĭespite attempts to distance himself from the more explicitly racist comments made by Fuentes, Gosar was the only sitting elected official to accept the invitation to speak at AFPAC II. Gosar (left) and Nick Fuentes (right), posted on an America First Telegram channel, shows the two leaders grabbing coffee in Orlando, Florida the day after AFPAC II. In his own speech that evening, Fuentes laid out the movement’s guiding White nationalist principles around demographics and identity, warning against America losing its “White demographic core” and insisting that, “White people founded this country, this country wouldn’t exist without White people, and White people are done being bullied.” A flyer for a fundraiser event featuring U.S. In a move that would become an opening salvo for the post-Trump era, Gosar addressed the crowd of White nationalists as “American patriots,” and repeated the groyper mantra, “ America First is inevitable,” to raucous applause. Representative Paul Gosar (R- AZ) made a surprise appearance as the headline speaker at the groypers’ second annual America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida ( AFPAC II). ![]() One month after the Capitol insurrection, U.S. politics, and highlights the challenges posed to existing “counter-extremism” strategies in the face of an increasingly normalized Far Right. His momentum both accelerates and reflects the mainstreaming of White nationalism in U.S. As a bevy of nationalist and populist figures jostle to claim the mantle of Trumpism, Fuentes seeks to secure a place for White nationalist concerns within the shifting consensus that defines movement conservatism. However, while other far-right formations present that day, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, have seen their national momentum falter, Fuentes’ America First/groyper movement-a largely online and anonymous network of Gen Z White nationalists and hard-right paleoconservatives that inherited the legacy of the 2016-17 Alt Right-has seen its profile continue to rise.įuentes and America First have attracted the support of national and local Republican officials, become a countercultural force among Gen Z conservative activists, and cast a long shadow over the MAGA Right, all while fortifying and expanding their organizational infrastructure. One year later, Fuentes may remain under federal scrutiny in ongoing Capitol insurrection investigations. Hailing the “American people rising up and taking our country back,” Fuentes urged the crowd to “not leave this capitol until Donald Trump is inaugurated President.” They were there, he reminded them, to “put Donald Trump back in office…so that he can take every last illegal alien and throw them back over the border,” and so “we can finally free ourselves from the parasitic global special interests.” While Fuentes agitated outside, his movement’s blue “America First” flag was among those carried by insurrectionists into the Capitol, and one groyper sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair in the Senate chamber. Capitol, addressing a crowd of thousands, as rioters streamed into the building. On January 6, 2021, White nationalist Nick Fuentes stood outside of the U.S.
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