Opinion | The ‘Groyperfication’ of the G.O.P. - The New York Times

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYTimes app, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. If, by the stroke of good fortune or by just being a normal person, you had not heard of Nick Fuentes before this month, chances are you’ve heard of him now. Archival clip of Ben Shapiro: Nick Fuentes is odious and despicable. Archival clip of Bill Maher: He’s what I would call a racist’s racist. He’s just this troll. Archival clip of Megyn Kelly: Nick Fuentes has said a long list of very vile things. Archival clip of Hasan Piker: He’s a booger-eating white supremacist Holocaust denier. The reason everybody is talking about Fuentes is because Tucker Carlson — arguably the most significant media figure on the American right at this point — hosted Fuentes, a person he has feuded with in the past, for a very friendly two-hour chat about the pr

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYTimes app, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. If, by the stroke of good fortune or by just being a normal person, you had not heard of Nick Fuentes before this month, chances are you’ve heard of him now. Archival clip of Ben Shapiro: Nick Fuentes is odious and despicable. Archival clip of Bill Maher: He’s what I would call a racist’s racist. He’s just this troll. Archival clip of Megyn Kelly: