Nick Fuentes, a Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic, Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist, is fully cognizant of the fact that he is unlikely to ever see the authoritarian worldview for which he advocates realized in the United States via the ballot box.
After all, outside of the Groypers who follow Fuentes and his America First movement, very few Americans share the desire to see this nation ruled by a "supreme leader totalitarian Christian dictator" who jails his opponents, takes a child bride, imposes Christian law on the nation, bans non-Christians from holding office, creates a "Catholic Taliban" that forces everyone to convert to Catholicism through Inquisitions, sends the military into Black neighborhoods, orders security force to gun down citizens in the streets, and requires women to wear burkas.
Given the limited appeal of Fuentes' platform, he openly espouses a long-term strategy in which his followers covertly embed themselves in governmental and societal institutions with the intention of rising through the ranks over the course of many years in hopes that, decades from now, they will attain positions of power from which they can force Fuentes' fascist agenda upon the nation.
During his program Tuesday night, Fuentes not-so-subtly acknowledged that this plan is already underway within the current Trump administration.
The various controversies surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth highlight the importance of being able to win "Machiavellian power struggles" within the government bureaucracy, said Fuentes. And the only way to win those struggles, he explained, is by positioning people within that bureaucracy who can "elbow [their] way to the top."
"When I say get into politics, I mean, strap yourselves in for like a 40-year struggle where you gonna start out as a low-level guy in a congressional office or in the Transportation Department," Fuentes said.
Then he paused, repeating the phrase "the Transportation Department" as he winked.
"That's a little inside joke," he said.
"You're gonna start out in one of those departments at a low level," Fuentes continued, "and you're gonna climb your way up the ladder over many years."
"You make your career, you make your way up the ladder and in in 40 years it we're gonna hope that a Groyper will be in a senior position in a prestigious federal department," Fuentes declared.
Given that Fuentes already has fans serving in elected office and working to infiltrate their local GOP, it is not all surprising that Fuentes would claim that his acolytes have apparently embedded themselves within the Trump administration as well.
