Tucker Carlson Comes Out Of The Closet.
"Fuentes and Friends" makes Fox Look Resonable. The Rise of The Proud Racist Newsman.
There was Tucker in his Pottery Barn-rustic Maine barn—across from Nick Fuentes, the 27-year-old who’s made a career of saying things so vile they’d make Megyn Kelly wince. And Tucker, who just months ago compared Fuentes to David Duke, was suddenly playing sympathetic therapist.
“I want to understand what you believe,” Tucker cooed, as if Fuentes were some misunderstood poet rather than someone who’s praised the Third Reich and used racial slurs that can’t be printed in a family newspaper.
Let’s be clear: Fuentes isn’t a conservative. He’s a racist. A bigot who was welcomed to dine at Mar-a-Lago with the former—and now current—president in November 2022. Trump broke bread with him. At the club where race policy is made by rich white men over shrimp cocktail and Trump wine.
The dinner wasn’t some accidental encounter. Fuentes arrived with Kanye West, and the three sat together for hours. Afterward, Fuentes crowed about the meeting, saying Trump was “really impressed” with him and that they discussed politics and the 2024 campaign. Trump, for his part, claimed he didn’t know who Fuentes was—the standard deflection of someone caught with his hand in the cookie jar. “I had never heard of the man,” Trump posted on Truth Social, before adding that Kanye had “unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about.”
Plausible deniability from a man who’s made an art form of it.
But here’s the thing: Fuentes had been openly cheerleading for Trump for years. He’d attended the January 6 rally (though he claims he didn’t enter the Capitol). He’d built his brand as a MAGA superfan. The idea that Trump—who monitors his mentions obsessively—had “never heard” of one of his most vocal, most extreme supporters strains credulity past the breaking point.
And what did Fuentes say after their cozy dinner? He praised Trump as someone who “gets it” and suggested the meeting showed Trump was willing to embrace the most radical elements of his base. Translation: The white nationalist seal of approval had been granted, and Trump didn’t return it to sender.
The question Republicans should be asking themselves is simple: What kind of people hang out with racists?
The answer is even simpler: Racists.
And the policy agenda speaks even louder than the dinner guest list. Trump has systematically changed immigration policy to make it harder for Black and Brown people to enter the country. But for white South Africans? The welcome mat is rolled out with fanfare for these “hidden” victims.
Trump has pushed for expedited refugee status and special visa programs for white South African farmers, claiming they face persecution—a talking point lifted straight from white nationalist forums. Never mind that extensive research has debunked claims of systematic attacks targeting white farmers specifically. Never mind that South Africa’s own government has repeatedly denied these allegations. Trump heard the dog whistle from his base and turned it into policy.
Meanwhile, asylum seekers from Central America—fleeing actual violence, actual persecution, actual death threats—are met with walls, family separation, and mass deportation. Refugees from predominantly Black nations in Africa face travel bans and bureaucratic nightmares. But white South Africans get presidential tweets advocating for their “rescue” and fast-tracked immigration pathways.
The contrast couldn’t be starker if it were written in neon. The message couldn’t be clearer if it were shouted through a megaphone: Immigration policy now has a color chart, and only one shade gets preferential treatment.
The pattern isn’t subtle.
Men like Fuentes aren’t born in a vacuum. They’re manufactured through years of living life through the lens of Fox News and Breitbart. Let’s stop calling them media outlets. They’re video onboarding for the KKK. A pipeline from cable news to white nationalism, with Tucker himself serving as both content creator and tour guide.
The Republican Party, that grand old elephant, has become a circus tent big enough for everyone—even the guy calling Chicago “nigger hell.” The firewall has crumbled. The guardrails are gone. We’re through the looking glass, people.
Tucker was critical of the anti-Semitism, mind you. “It’s against my Christian faith,” he declared, as if that absolved him of spending two hours giving Fuentes his biggest platform yet. Rich, coming from someone whose own show served as a gateway drug to the very extremism he now claims to deplore. Otherwise? It was a lovefest. Two peas in a pod discussing their shared passions: opposing diversity, foreign wars, and apparently, women’s rights.
The formerly fringe is now family. Candace Owens chatted with him. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts rushed to Tucker’s defense, clutching his pearls about “canceling” while condemning Fuentes’s views in the same breath—the perfect Washington two-step.
Even more chilling: those leaked Young Republican group chats, dripping with Holocaust jokes and racism that sound like Fuentes’s greatest hits. J.D. Vance—our Vice President—dismissed it all as “offensive jokes” and “pearl clutching.” Fuentes practically did a victory lap.
During their barn chat, Fuentes momentarily played moderate, insisting racial hatred should be “called out.” Then, naturally, he pivoted to explaining why wives should be subordinate and Chicago needs military occupation.
“I’m a little sexist,” Tucker admitted with a chuckle, as if confessing to leaving the toilet seat up.
Trump has shared Groyper memes. He’s dined with their leader. He’s rewriting immigration law to favor white immigrants while criminalizing Brown ones. The White House tweets like a 4chan troll. Fuentes’s vision of dragging Republicans “kicking and screaming” into reactionary extremism isn’t coming true—it’s already here.
The interview has over 4 million views. Fuentes is no longer the embarrassing id of conservatism. He’s moved into the ego. Perhaps soon, the superego.
Tucker assured his audience that Fuentes isn’t going away, so “it probably would just be worth hearing what Nick Fuentes thinks.”
The GOP used to at least pretend to draw lines. Now they’re asking: Why bother? If the president can have dinner with a white nationalist, if the vice president can laugh off Holocaust jokes, if Tucker can spend two hours nodding along in his barn, if immigration policy can be explicitly rewritten along racial lines while con men get pardons, then what exactly are we all clutching our pearls about?
You are the company you keep. And right now, the Republican Party is keeping very ugly company indeed.
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The progression from Fox News host to openly platforming Holocaust deniers shows how far the mask has slipped. When Vance dismisses Hitler jokes as pearl clutching and Trump dines with Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, the subtext has become text. The GOP didn't just tolerate this shift, they actively courted it through policy prefereces for white South Africans while criminalizing brown asylum seekers. This isn't political commentary anymore, its just overt racism with better production values.
I am reminded of Cyndi Lauper - "True Colors"