Who Is Nick Fuentes, and Why Is a US Rep Buddying Up to the Segregationist, Holocaust-Denying Gen Z Influencer? – By Ali Breland (Mother Jones) / June 29 2021
Arizona’s Paul Gosar may or may not be holding a fundraiser with Fuentes.
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Nick Fuentes, a 22-year-old far-right influencer, is pretty open about being a white supremacist, an antisemite, a racist, a fascist, etc. Sitting U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) evidently has no problem with any of that. A flyer made the rounds on Monday inviting people to “Please join Nick Fuentes and America First for a Fundraiser Event with Congressman Paul Gosar,” with details about date, time, and location to come on Thursday.
Whether this event is actually happening now seems unclear. Gosar seemed to defend (and thus confirm) his participation in the fundraiser in a tweet on Monday, characterizing it as a normal bit of big-tent politics:
Not sure why anyone is freaking out. I’ll say this: there are millions of Gen Z, Y and X conservatives. They believe in America First. They will not agree 100% on every issue. No group does. We will not let the left dictate our strategy, alliances and efforts. Ignore the left https://t.co/EJAZopO2pI
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) June 29, 2021
But on Tuesday he told a CNN reporter he wasn’t sure “what’s going on.” He added cryptically, “There’s no fundraiser that I know of on Friday,” though no one had suggested there would be a fundraiser on Friday.
