Tucker Carlson slapped his nicotine-pouch container down on the table and got straight into it: “Nick Fuentes, thank you for doing this,” he said. “I want to understand what you believe, and I want to give you a chance, in a minute, to just lay it out.” The two were sitting in Carlson’s barn turned podcast studio at his home in Maine. In a more-than-two-hour-long episode of The Tucker Carlson Show that aired earlier this week, Carlson gave Fuentes, the 27-year-old white-nationalist influencer, access to one of the largest audiences he has ever had.

Although Fuentes has many dedicated fans, who call themselves “Groypers,” mainstream conservatives have long ignored him. Even as the Republican Prty has come to embrace more extreme ideologies, he has been seen as too radioactive: Fuentes has

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