"Tucker Carlson slapped his nicotine-pouch container down on the table and got straight into it: "Nick Fuentes, thank you for doing this," he said. "I want to understand what you believe, and I want to give you a chance, in a minute, to just lay it out." The two were sitting in Carlson's barn turned podcast studio at his home in Maine. In a more-than-two-hour-long episode of The Tucker Carlson Show that aired earlier this week, Carlson gave Fuentes, the 27-year-old white-nationalist influencer, access to one of the largest audiences he has ever had."
"Although Fuentes has many dedicated fans, who call themselves "Groypers," mainstream conservatives have long ignored him. Even as the Republican Prty has come to embrace more extreme ideologies, he has been seen as too radioactive: Fuentes has praised Hitler on multiple occasions, likened "organized Jewry" to a "transnational gang," and said that Chicago is "nigger hell"-in addition to many other racist and anti-Semitic statements. Just a few months ago, Carlson himself likened Fuentes to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, and accused Fuentes of being part of a campaign to say the most bigoted things possible to make the rest of the right look bad."
Tucker Carlson hosted 27-year-old white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes for a more-than-two-hour episode recorded in Carlson's barn studio in Maine, providing Fuentes access to a very large audience. Carlson criticized Fuentes's anti-Semitism as conflicting with his Christian faith but otherwise conducted a largely friendly conversation that emphasized shared views such as opposing foreign intervention and racial diversity. Fuentes has long been marginalized by mainstream conservatives for praising Hitler, making racist and anti-Semitic remarks, and using slurs. The interview appears to reflect a shift in some right-wing media willingness to platform Fuentes, who has begun appearing on other conservative podcasts.
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