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Today in Focus

The 27-year-old white supremacist radicalising MAGA

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Where is Nick Fuentes trying to lead the Republican party? J Oliver Conroy reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.0

Today, the fight for the American right.

0:16.0

As a heads up, this episode contains strong and discriminatory language all the way through.

0:22.3

How right wing is to right wing?

0:25.5

It's a question you wonder how often Republicans have been asking themselves in the last decade.

0:30.9

Since Trump pushed their party to a harder, angrier, more populous place, the further right MAGA moves, the more extreme its fringe elements go,

0:41.3

until what was once unsayable about Muslims, Jews, immigrants, people of color, women,

0:48.3

LGBTQ communities, it's all become normalized.

0:53.3

It is incumbent on all adolescent young men that want to save this country, that want any future for your children, they want to preserve what your ancestors built, to get involved.

1:05.0

I mean, you need to become a human Swiss Army knife, get in the gym, do tactical training, become hard to kill so you can protect

1:11.9

yourself and your family. Learn the rules of the game.

1:14.8

Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old, self-proclaimed white nationalist. He's radicalizing a generation

1:20.9

of followers calling themselves Groypers, named after an obscure internet meme about a frog.

1:26.6

The Groyper Army is like the extreme and increasingly violent arm of the political right.

1:31.3

I thought that was MAGA.

1:32.3

The Groypers make MAGA look like Democrats.

1:37.3

Five years ago, you might have dismissed Fuentes and his army of Groyper's

1:41.3

as a subculture of terminally online young men.

1:45.2

But Fuentes is making far-right ideology mainstream.

1:48.5

He's dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

1:51.0

He's been courted by Tucker Carlson, and he's been invited by Pierce Morgan to appear on his show.

1:56.4

Groypers are now inside the tent.

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