Tucker Carlson's favorite historian, Darryl Cooper, announced today that he had written a foreword for a friend's book. That friend is a man called Thomas Cyr, better known as Thomas777 online. The 777 is a white supremacist reference and Cooper himself admits that Cyr is "openly sympathetic to the Third Reich."
1/ Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made announces he wrote the foreword for a "WW2 revisionism" book by a friend of his who's "openly sympathetic to the Third Reich... he walks the streets of Chicago rocking leather jackets bearing Iron Cross and totenkopf patches." pic.twitter.com/V8htHx5M6h
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 20, 2026
2/ "Mainstream gatekeepers will tell you that this is reason enough to ignore him, but you’d be doing yourself a disservice... The perspective of people who are sympathetic to Hitler and the Third Reich have been systematically excluded from the discourse." pic.twitter.com/6r5lLO6PJY
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 20, 2026
Cooper has reacted to being identified as a fan of Cyr's work by arguing that people should read the work of those they disagree with. In other words, don't assume he's also a Nazi sympathizer just because he agreed to promote this book written by a Nazi sympathizer. But of course you can read other points of view without promoting and praising them. So, for instance, I've read the Communist Manifesto but I have nothing good to say about the author or the contents.
Darly Cooper (@martyrmade) is a gutless weasel who's blocked me (for calling him a Hitler apologist, which he is).
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) August 20, 2026
Yep, you should read many awful people—I own Mein Kampf, Lenin, and The Turner Diaries—but you don't have to write laudatory introductions to their work! https://t.co/5Is5eNZEwJ pic.twitter.com/zyQgrd3P4e
feel like a very simple distinction is being lost on his fans. the criticism is not that cooper read a book by a nazi. in some situations it might be useful to read a book by a nazi! the criticism is that cooper wrote a nazi-sympathizing foreword for a nazi-sympathizing book! https://t.co/fHqOAzMonv
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 21, 2026
And it really does seem that he's agreeing with Cyr quite a bit.
3/ From Cooper's foreword: "Tragically, many Europeans collaborated in their own destruction, but others refused to march quietly into the yawning grave The latter, led by Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, have served as the chief devils of the new state religion." pic.twitter.com/NRPuknWepV
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 20, 2026
I'm not sure how you can read this other than to say Hitler was some kind of unsung hero. Jesse Singal ended that thread by pointing out that Cooper has talked about Cyr before on Tucker Carlson's show.
🚨Tucker Carlson just had his favourite historian Darryl "Churchill was WW2's chief villian" Cooper on to promote open neo-Nazi Thomas777.
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) August 4, 2026
Thomas777 believes: "Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who prevented Soviet world domination." And rants about,… pic.twitter.com/WDo3FenBCH
Here's the guy Cooper thinks is cool. Maybe Democrats can recruit him to run for Senate.
Of course this is who is now being promoted on Tucker Carlson's show. https://t.co/mAiy8vvNOr pic.twitter.com/sDkDgn1sIw
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) August 4, 2026
The site Mother Jones wrote about Darryl Cooper last year and argued that he's basically playing a game in which he presents all of the arguments for a pro-Nazi worldview without ever admitting that's his goal. I don't generally take Mother Jones too seriously, but in this case they have some receipts to back it up.
Compared to overt Holocaust deniers, Cooper is subtle—even shifty. He has not, like Richard Spencer, Sieg Heil-ed at a public event. His references often require research. Cooper, for example, wrote “Guten morgen” to a user on X last August, along with a picture of himself holding a coffee mug. It might take a moment to realize the user is a self-identified Nazi, and the mug Cooper holds is sold on a website where you can buy a T-shirt in which a Nazi SS sword plunges through the Star of David. Cooper implores his followers not to fall into the morass of “low-IQ vulgar antisemitism.” He leaves his views on high-IQ sophisticated antisemitism more ambiguous...
In 2016, a user going by the name “Juggernaut Nihilism” left a comment on a transparently white nationalist website called Counter-Currents.
Public records show that “Juggernaut Nihilism” is part of an email address associated with Cooper. When Juggernaut Nihilism asked goldbugs in the online forums of the TF Metals Report in 2013 whether he should buy a house, the personal details he supplied about his work history and where he lived matched those of Darryl Cooper. David Simon, the creator of The Wire, once attacked Cooper in a Twitter post that began “You go by juggernaut nihilism.”
The article Juggernaut Nihilism was responding to on Counter-Currents was written by Colin Liddell. Previously, Liddell had wondered about what the “best and easiest way to dispose of [Blacks]” would be in an essay titled “Is Black Genocide Right?” In the reply, Juggernaut Nihilism took him to task for attacking allies on the far-right who chose not to publicize their racist views.
“A movement like this needs to operate at various levels, from the intellectual core (that remains terrifying and offensive to the general population right up until the big shift), on up to covert supporters slipping occasional language and subversive information into conversation and normie media,” Juggernaut Nihilism wrote. “Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process, and you have to initiate people without scaring them off (and without blaming them for being scared off…the human mind works the way it works, and the enemy studies it carefully, controls the education system, and dominates the media).”
For his part, Cooper does not deny the Holocaust outright but doesn't seem to be very clear about how many people died or whether those deaths were intended or more of an administrative snafu.
Has @martyrmade laid out anywhere, in plain English, whether he thinks the Nazis had a policy of intentionally killing Jews in the camps, and roughly how many he thinks died, or is it this coy bullshit all the way down? pic.twitter.com/SNkQW0aHCM
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 21, 2026
2/ So far no luck finding any example of him endorsing any mainstream account of the Holocaust. He says there was anti-Semitism that could have led the Germans to let Jews starve before others. He acknoweldges massacres of Jews in the context of massacres against *everyone*. pic.twitter.com/RdBJv1fz7h
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 21, 2026
Anyway, I just want to go on the record with the shocking idea that Nazis are bad and people who promote Nazis or Nazi sympathizers are also bad. I've heard the self-serving response to criticism from people like Tucker Carlson, which is that we shouldn't be afraid to talk to anyone. Fair enough, I agree. But we also shouldn't be afraid to criticize someone who thinks the Nazis were the unsung heroes of WWII. It's not a close call.
Tucker's problem is that he hasn't shown any interest in doing that, not with Darryl Cooper, not with Putin himself and not with Nick Fuentes or Andrew Tate. On the contrary, his interviews always come across more as promotional adverts.
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