- Michelle Goldberg @ The New York Times: Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor
Plenty of conservatives, especially Jewish ones, abhor Fuentes’s growing clout. But by cheering on Donald Trump as he promoted conspiracy theories and systematically destroyed bulwarks against nativism and bigotry in the Republican Party, they helped make Fuentes’s rise possible.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank
BEN SHAPIRO DID SOMETHING UNIQUE on Monday. Not only did he open his show with a fiery intervention in the right’s roiling feud over white nationalist Nick Fuentes—he devoted his entire show to the topic.
- Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Nick Fuentes Calls For Mark Levin to Be Deported In Hateful, Unhinged Rant
White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes went on a hateful and unhinged rant against Fox host Mark Levin this week, openly calling for his deportation for comments he made in support of Israel.
- Scott Nover and Drew Harwell @ The Washington Post: Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon
The far-right activist and former congressional candidate has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
- Nikki McCann Ramirez @ Rolling Stone: Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
Mike Johnson has a reflex. When asked about a major breaking news event that is dominating headlines and conversations around Capitol Hill’s proverbial water coolers — usually the president’s latest authoritarian endeavor or national humiliation — Johnson defaults to pretending he has no access to the internet, newspapers, or staff who are quite literally paid to keep him informed.
- Sarah Posner @ Talking Points Memo: Traditional Media Never Took the Christian Right Seriously
Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses of authoritarian dilettantes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, a friend suggested I start a blog. I had been a lawyer, but was eager to change careers. Having studied the rise of the Christian right as a college student in the 1980s, I was now watching their aspirations unfold in real time. I wanted to investigate, expose, weigh in on all the things other people were missing. I was accustomed to writing fast. I was built to blog.
- Kevin J. Burke and Heidi Hadley @ The National Education Policy Center: Christian Nationalism and Educational Policy in the United States
American public education, though historically rooted in Christian ideals, has long navigated tensions among denominational differences and, in modern times, secularism. The growing influence of Christian nationalism—a movement blending Protestant religious identity with political ideology—threatens this balance.
