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Why Trump’s Dinner with Nick Fuentes Requires a New Journalistic Approach
The dinner shouldn’t have happened. The lack of condemnation is worse. The way journalists will cover it is the biggest problem.
“You have no choice. Not your body, not your choice. Your body is mine, and you’re having my baby.”
These words were screamed by a man wearing an FDNY fleece from the steps of the Old St. Patrick Cathedral in downtown Manhattan, the morning of May 7, 2022. The other men in attendance, holding rosaries, were wearing blue America First hats were protesting against Planned Parenthood, just days after the Supreme Court had leaked its plans to undo Roe vs. Wade and permanently set back women’s rights in the United States.
These men weren’t your typical protesters (or FDNY members), they were part of Nick Fuentes’ Groyper Army, a tight knit collection of misogynist, holocaust-denying, Christian Nationalist, racist bigots who believe themselves to be “heirs to conservatism.” Their entire ideology is based on what Fuentes says is a “traditionalist, Christian, conservative, reformist, American…
