Rise of the ‘Groypers’

Rise of the ‘Groypers’

Who is Nick Fuentes?A far-right activist and influencer best known for his racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic rhetoric. He first attracted attention at 18 as one of themost vocal marchers at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Less than an hour after a neo-Nazi plowed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person, the then–Boston University student posted on Facebook that a “tidal wave of white identity is co…

Analysis: What is a Groyper?

Although President Donald Trump may have narrowly escaped a sniper’s bullets to evade an assassination attempt, he may as well be dead.  Still early in his second term as president, we can already observe a significant erosion in Trump’s political support. Even among registered Republicans and ideological conservatives, public polling shows a drastic decrease in his approval rating. At the moment, countless right-wingers are abandoning the “Make…