It was in his classic dystopian novel "1984" that George Orwell first coined the term "doublethink" to describe the process of indoctrination used by a totalitarian state to control its citizens.
Within the context of the novel, the superstate of Oceania is ruled by an all-powerful organization known as The Party, which presents itself as both infallible and omniscient, thereby forcing citizens to engage in "doublethink" in order to reconcile the contradictions that inevitably arise whenever real world events demonstrate that The Party is not, in fact, infallible and omniscient.
As Orwell explained the concept, "doublethink" is the ability "to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them" and "to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again."
While Orwell's nightmarish regime has not yet actually come to fruition, the concept of "doublethink" is very real and its practice was on full display during a recent program hosted by Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic, Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
On Friday, Fuentes once again dedicated his program to discussing the fallout from his recent softball interview with Tucker Carlson, which generated a much wider controversy when Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts came rushing to Carlson's defense while insisting that nobody on the right should be trying to "cancel" Fuentes.
Roberts has since apologized, and Fuentes spent a good portion of Friday's program ripping Roberts for doing so, saying that nobody should ever apologize to the "Jewish mob."
"Why will I never apologize?" Fuentes boldly declared. "Because when you are dealing with the Jewish mob, when you're dealing with these Jewish gangsters, they're never operating in good faith. Know that. Understand that. Bank that."
Fuentes said that Jews are never seeking a "sincere apology," but rather are "looking for submission" and "humiliation."
"They want you to bow down," he said. "They want you to submit and surrender. They want you to acknowledge that they are in charge of you. They are our moral betters. They are the boss, and we are supposed to defer to them and kowtow and kiss the boot. That's what that's about."
"This is why you should never apologize, because these people hate you," he continued. "They hate you. They don't care about your well-being. And they're not looking for an apology. They're looking for submission. And I will not give that to them. I would rather die. And that's the difference. Kevin Roberts gave them an apology. And look at what an idiot he looks like. Everybody, look at the clown, look at the absolute fool, Kevin Roberts. Look at how he humiliated himself like a bitch. ... Everybody look at Kevin Roberts, the week's idiot. This is the idiot of the week, and you should be embarrassed. You should feel like a cuck. You should feel like a bitch that you did that. This is why we never apologize."
After spending a good portion of the show ranting in this matter, Fuentes then took questions from viewers, one of whom wanted to know his thoughts about musician Kanye West, now known as Ye, recently meeting with a rabbi and apologizing for his own long history of virulent antisemitism.
Predictably, Fuentes, who idolizes West, worked on his presidential campaign, and even dined with him and President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, gave West a pass for apologizing despite having just dedicated a good portion of that very program to ripping those who do that very thing.
"I don't have to answer for him," Fuentes said defensively regarding West's apologetic meeting with the rabbi. "That's his decision, and he's my friend so I don't care. I support him through thick and thin and so I'm not going to say much more beyond that."
"It's his business. It's his decision," Fuentes asserted. "It's his life. But he's my friend; I stand by him. I loved Ye before he was singing 'Heil Hitler.' I love that man, so I'm never going to throw him under the bus because I disagree with something he does or whatever. I mean, it's his prerogative."
So, after furiously blasting Kevin Roberts for having allegedly "humiliated himself like a bitch" by apologizing, Fuentes turned right around and absolved West for doing the exact same thing on the ground that they are friends "so I don't care."
