Typically, the long-running MAGA influencer feud between white supremacist streamer Nick Fuentes and Jewish conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro – who despise each other for obvious reasons – would have been contained within the internet. Last week, it ratcheted up when Fuentes, an unrepentant antisemite who has said that “Hitler was really fucking cool”, suddenly achieved a new level of legitimacy within the right: Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host-turned-podcaster, invited Fuentes on his show for an hourlong interview about the US government’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Even then, it could have still been contained online. Carlson, w …
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