October 21, 2023

Forgive me for enjoying some liberal schadenfreude at this latest front of the right-wing civil war, even though Fuentes is hateful, dangerous and abhorrent. Still, I can’t help but giggle at some of his attacks on his fellow Trumpers.

“I am so sick of that repugnant, odious little man, Mark Levin,” Fuentes smirked. “Constitutionalist, my ass.”

Fuentes went on to call Levin, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager and Joel Pollak, all of whom are Jewish Trumpers, “an alien organism” and “a parasitic force.”

The rest was not so funny. Fuentes called for both Levin and Shapiro to be deported or put in jail for treason. The implication was that Jews, by definition, are not Americans. Without disputing any of his targets' legal American citizenship, Fuentes claimed, “They're here because their purpose is to be double agents, to make sure that the money and the guns and everything else keeps flowing. … They have attached themselves to this country to support their own country, their own entity, to the detriment of this one.”

Fuentes also heaped his antisemitic scorn on Fox News for allowing Levin to lecture on Fox & Friends “while they sit there with their hands in their lap, like good goyim.”

But while Levin, Shapiro, et al. probably never made common cause with Fuentes, plenty of their MAGA besties have, Right Wing Watch points out:

It is worth remembering that despite his long history of openly and repeatedly making known his abhorrent views, Fuentes nevertheless managed to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago with former President Donald Trump and musician Kanye West in November of 2022 and has previously secured the support of elected leaders like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Paul Gosar, and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.

Sorry, guys, but when you lie down with white nationalists, you get up with antisemitic fleas happy to bite you.

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