For all the legacy media’s obsessive warnings about far-right extremist Nick Fuentes, it has shown far less interest in confronting a dangerous left-wing counterpart: Hasan Piker.
The New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg has called Fuentes, a 27-year-old online influencer, a “Hitler-loving white nationalist.” The Times has run ominous headlines like “Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’ ” and “Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right.”
The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang warns that Fuentes is “not just another alt-right boogeyman” and that the “rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does.”
And The Washington Post recently opined about how Fuentes “spreads hate online – and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Many of these hand-wringing pieces seek to tie Fuentes more broadly to the Republican Party and President Donald Trump’s MAGA base.
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