Nick Fuentes is becoming not only popular, but pretty close to mainstream. He's been called lots of things, but he says himself he's a far-right, pro-White, anti-Jewish, Catholic type.

I've watched a lot of his stuff recently to figure out why there's so much momentum, and it's fairly obvious.

First—and this is kind of the big one—he says things that people know to be true but that have been disallowed in public conversation. This is a trick that works for any political faction when the opposite side has been lying to people in a completely obvious way. It's what got the right into power over the left going back to like 2016. Fuentes is also quite funny and entertaining in the way he does it.

He also uses another common and brilliant tactic, which is stitching those little bits of truth into a whole lot of lies and hyperbole.

The most dangerous of his tactics, however, which tends to become the strategy, is the fact that underneath it all he's painting a picture of what he thinks is a better world. Which, in his case, is something like a Catholic, White-Supremacist theocracy. With "The Jews" not in charge anymore, of course.

The corollary of Godwin's Law says you should never invoke Hitler in an argument, but I'm going to break that law for a specific, historical reason.

Hitler was not special. He wasn't some beast that everyone identified as such when he walked in a room. He was just a guy. Young and angry, talking to a population of the young and angry.

He basically did the 1930s podcast circuit.

Lots of other voices saying similar things, but he is the one that stood out because he was the most extreme and he said it consistently. And he got really good at it.

What made the rise possible was not only him, but the population and moment into which he was speaking. There is a vacuum waiting for someone shaped like Hitler to get on stage and say those words. Right now, Fuentes is saying very similar words into a very similar vacuum, which is Anglo Anger.

So we just need sunlight, right? ​

What you clearly can't do is just cancel the person. It's not working with the AFD or Orban in Europe, and it's not working with Nick Fuentes. He has been canceled more severely, and more times, than anyone. And now he's shooting right past all his competition, just like in the 30's.

So the obvious and opposite solution that people are trying now is to apply the wisdom of, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant.", which brings me to my main point.

Injured people can be otherwise smart, but in that state they're looking for a savior who matches the anger they feel.

In this environment, sunlight illuminates instead of disinfecting. And that's precisely why Fuentes is rising instead of falling as his exposure increases.

Imagine Hitler getting more and more popular in every single crowd that he goes into, and someone says, "You know what really needs to happen? We need to get him on stage with a better microphone and a better sound system at a much larger stadium...and have him debate somebody who's not as good at talking to his audience."

Yeah, great idea.

So what's the solution? ​

The answer, which I and many others have been talking about long before 2016, is to have centrists take away his primary weapon (humiliation) by addressing the same things from an angle of equality rather than hatred.

The center has to speak truth and remove the humiliation before it gets weaponized.

Specifically, it's dangerous to have an entire population of White people programmed over decades to feel guilty for existing. Especially when that same group actually started and built the country. It's dangerous to tell them that everyone else can be proud of their identity—and that they should be celebrated...

Except for them. Because they are evil.

This is the force that creates the vacuum that Hitler and now Fuentes stepped in to fill.

Basically, if the center won't address things like this, then the far right is more than happy to do so. And they will win because of it. Except they won't just bring truth and a return to equality with others. They will use the entire thing to bring hate.

Our cowardice in the center has created this situation. And we're the only ones who can fix it.

The question is simply whether or not we have the courage.

Summary ​

1. Nick Fuentes is rising because he's fitting into an empty space created by a lack of courage in the center.
2. Sunlight is better than cancelling, but it's not the only solution here because—absent alternative voices—it will just illuminate his message.
3. The solution is for the center to re-form and find it's courage. We need lots of decent people saying similar, moderate things like the above (hopefully better articulated) to disarm the far-right by making sure they're no longer the only people addressing difficult topics.