On Election Day last week, white nationalist Nick Fuentes urged his supporters on X to “get out and vote Democrat today.” The post racked up over 12 million views. Hours later, in the wake of the Democratic sweep, Fuentes took credit for the victory. “We did it again” he wrote on Telegram, later calling the phenomenon “the Groyper Effect,” a reference to the nickname given to his followers.
In recent days, Fuentes has claimed the election results are an opportunity for him and his allies on the far-right.
“Let the Democrats rule, see how that goes,” Fuentes said during a livestream last week. “There will come a time when the far left will terrorize people, and they're going to push all of them into the arms of the right. Who's going to fight the far left? Only the far-right. This is why we have to take over the right wing now.”
In another livestream last week, Fuentes added a warning to the GOP leadership: “It’s our party now … You need to cooperate with us… Groypers are open for business. It has [to] be America First—and if it's not, we'll do it again for the enemy.”
A WIRED review of comments from white supremacist, Christian nationalist, and other far-right groups in the wake of the midterm results shows much of the same. While the groups are uniformly attacking Trump’s failure to prioritize white, Christian American values, they also believe that this sudden shift to the left will result in a backlash that will see more people embrace far-right groups and ideologies.
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