Glenn Greenwald Absolutely Gushes Over ‘Very Impressive’ White Nationalist Nick Fuentes

Glenn Greenwald gushed over white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes in a recent episode of his show, insisting that Fuentes is “very impressive” and even calling him a “generational talent.”

In a discussion about Fuentes’s ongoing feud with fellow far-right personalities Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, Greenwald noted that Carlson “did acknowledge like, look, Nick Fuentes is spectacularly talented. I mean, he’s like, like, you know, a very rare, like generational talent in terms of his ability to go before the camera, attract attention, be charismatic, but he’s not like a ranter and a raver, he’s-, Nick Fuentes is very well read, very, very informed. There aren’t a lot of people who know more about Nick-, who know more about the topics Nick Fuentes covers than Nick Fuentes. It’s very impressive.”

“And that combination of being very charismatic, an extremely adept communicator, just kind of a natural camera presence, and having really smart insights that are grounded not in sensationalism or blind ideology, but lots of reading, and thinking,  and critical evaluation — it’s a very potent combination. And that’s the reason why he’s becoming so so popular that even people at the heights of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson can’t really ignore it anymore,” he added.

Greenwald went on to observe that Fuentes had argued, in response to criticism from the other two figures, that he had been “criticizing Israel, talking about the influence of the Israel lobby in the United States” for years, while Owens and Carlson are “late to the game.”

“You had Trump kind of come in and create this space, and Nick Fuentes started really, you know, looking into it. And he described on Candace’s show and he’s describe before how he — and I’m going into this not because of the personalities, but because I think they raise very broader issues about how all of this has evolved, not just for them but for the broader discourse — and he started off in, you know, conservative politics. So he at first you know was thinking Israel is our greatest ally, we have to support them, all the standard Republican and conservative views that have dominated both Republican and the Democratic Party politics for decades. But then the more he started looking, the more he started questioning it. And the more he started questioning it, the more he started becoming vocal about it. And the more he became vocal about it, the more he became shunned inside the conservative media world that he obviously had a very bright future in. And rather than shutting up, as he was told to do, knowing that that might be better for his career, he couldn’t. He just doesn’t have that personality type. And he just had to keep examining it, and keep saying it. And to say that Nick Fuentes has paid a price for that is an understatement,” said Greenwald. “Nick Fuentes got excluded and booted out of every conceivable precinct of conservative media, even ones that consider themselves radical, dissident, far-right ones.”

“He was put on a no-fly list, which is the first time I really talked to Nick, spoke about Nick, when I raised serious concerns about no-fly lists being used in this way. And his career has been severely impeded. Not from what people believe are his racist views about black people or immigrants. Tons of people have those views and are perfectly welcome and fine in right-wing circles. The sole cause of it was his opposition to Israel, and his questioning of the power of the Jewish lobby to keep the United States subservient to Israel,” he insisted.

“He is, I would say, for conservatives under, I don’t know, 30, 35, 30, arguably the single most influential and admired conservative influencer, far-right, right wing, far-right influencer, whatever you wanna call him, and people are gonna have to accept that,” concluded Greenwald.

Fuentes has a long history of racist and anti-Semitic advocacy that includes praise for Adolf Hitler, calls for a “holy war” against Jews,” and an expressed desired for “total Aryan victory.”

“I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don’t hate Hitler. I think there’s a Jewish conspiracy. I believe in race realism,” declared Fuentes in 2023.

Greenwald characterized Fuentes’s rhetoric as “provocative” and sometimes “offensive.”

“He [Fuentes] is prone to rhetorical excess, and it’s part of the whole presence,” he added.

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