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The GOP’s Groyper Fringe Became Its Future

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When the A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more collapsed, Fuentes had already cultivated a persona built to survive. He spoke the language of the MARs and framed [politicalresearch.org] his A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more as ‘American The belief in the primacy of “the nation” as the most important political allegiance, that every nation should have its own state, and that it is the primary responsibility of the state and its leaders to preserve the nation. Learn more .’ Groypers began as outsiders, but as controversy after controversy revealed, they were quickly entering organizations such as Turning Point USA, positions within the broader conservative movement, and, eventually, Republican politics itself. Across conservative social media, and even some official channels, thinly veiled alt-right memes circulate as a kind of online currency. When the Department of Homeland Security X account recently posted a racist “moon man” meme emblazoned with the sentence ‘life after all criminal aliens are deported,’ Richard Spencer remarked that the number of ‘groypers currently working in the government shouldn’t be underestimated.’”

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