I’ve opined a number of times that President Trump is simply a con-man, and the Republican Party’s swift dash to the far right land of absolutes and arrogance set them up to be grifted.
And I may turn out to be right. I know little enough about Nick Fuentes[1], but he is a far-right influencer and member of MAGA, He is a supporter of President Trump – or, at least, was until the Epstein kerfuffle refused to go away.
During Wednesday night’s episode of the America First podcast, Fuentes responded to Trump’s [Truth Social] post, sharing a number of four-lettered words for the president, starting off with a strong: “F*** you. You suck.”
“You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are,” Fuentes said, later adding, “This entire thing has been a scam.”
“When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history,” Fuentes said. “And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were.”
“When we look back in history, we will see Trump as a scam artist who served as a vehicle for this rather than the other way around. We were not the vehicle for Trump, Trump was the vehicle for all of us,” Fuentes added. [Newsweek]
My bold.
While many influencers, mostly wannabes, flocked to Trump because of an honest sympathy for at least some of his views, and others due to antipathy for liberals, a bunch went to Trump as a quick way up the social prestige ladder.
This means that some influencers will stick with the President, while others will flee as they discover the President’s essentially mendacious nature. Some will view the lies concerning the alleged Epstein files as a deal breaker, while others will see mendacity as simply another arrow in the quiver for the ambitious – or desperate – candidate. In turn, audiences will shift and shrink as they realize how their favorite influencer is reacting.
If you’re an aficionado of right-wing influencers, it may pay to track who dispenses with loyalty to the President and who clings like plastic wrap. The latter are the weak sisters; the former might bear consideration as those who are dangerously loyal to their beliefs.
And those who just hate liberals could go either way.
In the end, these are the fruits of arrogance and mendacity: self-destruction of the group because one’s ego is more important than triumph for the group. The President’s ego requirements and need to dominate, while initially satisfied, have now run into the ego-requirements of MAGA, i.e., Epstein! Epstein! And his clients!
So far, it looks like it may rip both the President and MAGA apart.
1 Here’s a link to his page in Wikipedia, but I strongly caution that such entries can easily be corrupted, and that people do mature as the years pass. I have no reason to think the latter applies to Mr Fuentes, but I also have no reason to think it does not. Like all social media, approach what you read with caution, not abandon.
