Biff_Poindexter
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White nationalists prep for "physical" altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference
"Groyper" guru and Charlottesville celeb Nick Fuentes looks to lead white nationalist invasion at CPAC gathering
www.salon.com
"White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes, de facto leader of the ultra-far-right "groyper" movement, has announced that he plans to attending a Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this weekend in Dallas, although he has not been welcomed at previous CPAC events. Since 2019, Fuentes has made a point of showing up at CPAC gatherings, likely to create friction and push the bounds of acceptable rhetoric at the American Conservative Union's events.
This year will apparently be no different. At CPAC gatherings both last year and this year, Fuentes has staged his own competing event, dubbed the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), designed to make the more "mainstream" conservatives of CPAC appear to be RINOs or "cucks." Jared Holt, a former reporter for Right Wing Watch, discussed the fraught relationship between Fuentes and CPAC -- he added that Fuentes and the "groypers" see CPAC as a way to "boost their own visibility" and attempt to "siphon off" attendees from more mainstream conservative groups."
Just because these white nationalists once got winks and nods of approval in 2016 and 2017; they think they can just show up at any Conservative political event they want to. What makes them actually think they can "siphon off" conservatives from establishment mainstream groups?? Shouldn't they be at Liberal Democrat events to recruit new members?? After all, the Dems created the KKK and white supremacy; so shouldn't they be more successful attracting them instead of conservatives??