Nick Fuentes and Richard Hanania’s Paganism

The popularity of Nick Fuentes is in its way a fulfillment of Ross Douthat’s much-quoted ominous prophecy that the “post-Christian right” will rise to replace the Christian right. While the young streamer may proclaim Christ and the Catholic faith, he plainly wears this identity as a skinsuit. Daniel Mahoney correctly identifies him as an avatar of “the new pagan Right,” owing much more to Nietzsche than to Jesus as he openly admires totalitarians and seeks to position himself as a political powerbroker.