Nalin Haley and Tucker Carlson trace Nick Fuentes’ rise to young men’s economic despair—$1T+ in student debt, 40-year-old first-time homebuyers—and the GOP’s betrayal of working-class values, from Iraq’s $2T war waste to Israel’s lobby-driven influence. Haley, a Catholic conservative, rejects "Con Inc." media and mass legal immigration, warning it erodes English and wages, while framing gender roles as a crisis of faith over ideology. His generation’s radicalization stems from systemic neglect: universities profiting from debt, banks exploiting loans, and politicians ignoring homeownership collapse—all while dismissing them as "Nazis" or "pothead kids." The solution? A return to meritocracy, not tribalism, before fragmentation turns violent. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, it looks like all the screaming about Nick Fuentes on the internet is finally dying down a little bit.
It couldn't go on forever, though it seemed like it might.
And that's a good thing because after all, there's a lot else going on in the world, some of it important.
And watching people day after day stand up to basically make the same point, I'm a good person, unlike him.
Not that interesting or edifying or even really informative.
I mean, we definitely learned that there are quite a few professional conservatives who are not that conservative in any sense that really matters.
Some of them are fraudulent or sad or kind of stuck in nonprofit jobs because they can't get another.
And your sympathy goes out to them, but listening to them talk day after day really didn't teach us anything.
But it doesn't mean that there aren't lessons to be learned.
In fact, there's one really important lesson, and this was really the reason to interview Nick Fuentes in the first place.
And the lesson is that a lot of young men in America, mostly white, but not exclusively, listen to Nick Fuentes really carefully.
And the lesson that our professional bettors in Washington have drawn over the past few weeks is that means they're as bad as Nick Fuentes.
They're Nazis too.
But of course, they're not Nazis, by and large.
They're just American young people.
And so the question is, and it's a pressing question if you care about the future of the country, why have they been listening to Nick Fuentes?
Sincerely?
Like, what is this?
Why aren't they listening to somebody from the Heritage Foundation or the Daily Wire?
Why do they believe Nick Fuentes more than they believe the people who think they ought to have a monopoly on the attention of young conservatives?
That is a really important question.
And what does it say, not simply about their attitudes, but about the problems they face, the society they grew up in, the future they imagine for themselves?
What does it say about all of that that Fuentes is so popular among young men?
After all, young men really are kind of the basis of our hope for continuing as a country.
So if they're off in some direction that you don't understand, it's probably incumbent on you to try to understand it to the extent you can.
You know, it's hard to understand other people's motives, and it's even harder when they're in a different generation.
But making a good faith effort to figure out what is this, well, that's on us, us being, you know, everyone with a job who's not in that generation.
All the beneficiaries of a stronger, more cohesive America, the America we grew up in, which doesn't exist anymore.
It's our responsibility to look at newer generations and say, what's going on with them?
Can we help in any way?
If we care about our country, if we care about our own families, our children and grandchildren, we probably want to do that.
And it's probably not enough to call them names.
It doesn't work, for one thing.
It just makes whatever we claim to dislike even stronger.
There's one lesson of the Trump 2015 announcement and everything that's happened since then, the last 10 years, it's that.
And the lesson, obviously, is that when every power center in the country declares war on you, you become a power center.
It doesn't destroy you.
It makes you stronger.
It's certainly true for Donald Trump.
Would he have become president in 2016 and 2024 if all the cool kids hadn't denounced him as a Nazi?
Probably not.
Would he have been re-elected if the FBI hadn't raided Mar-a-Lago and gone through his wife's underwear drawer?
We can debate it.
But maybe not.
Maybe this would be the Ron DeSantis presidency.
Probably.
So attacking people, particularly when you attack them ad hominem, when you don't try to deconstruct or rebut the arguments they're making, but just calling them names.
Nazi!
That's counterproductive every single time.
You expose yourself as hysterical and shallow, and you elevate them in the minds of everybody else.
They're important enough to be yelled at by every trustee at the Heritage Foundation or whatever.
They must be important.
So again, it doesn't work, but it's also on a deeper level kind of immoral.
It's immoral to dismiss the concerns of your countrymen as beneath consideration.
I don't have to listen to you because you like some guy who's got ugly views.
And by the way, it's not a defense of all of Fuentes' views.
We interviewed him on the show and said it is totally immoral to hate Jews as a group because it's totally immoral to hate any group.
Period.
That's always wrong.
But it doesn't mean that everything Fuentes says is wrong.
If not, wrong.
And more to the point, what he says on the air and his huge popularity, which has only increased the more these people scream at him, says a lot about the people who are listening and their legitimate concerns and the factors in our society in America and the West that gave rise to their attitudes.
Like, how did this happen?
Let's, for once, in the last 20 years, look back and ask ourselves an honest question: how did this happen?
Let's do what we didn't do when we withdrew from Afghanistan or declared a truce in Iraq or carted away the rubble from 9-11.
And no one was ever held responsible for allowing it to happen or the bad decisions that made it happen.
Not one person.
And so, of course, inevitably, disasters followed disasters.
Because if you never take the time to take responsibility for what you've done or even understand it, you're apt to repeat it.
It's the most obvious observation in the world.
It's the basis of good parenting.
It's why you make your kids apologize, of course.
So let's, in the case of Nick Fuentes, focus not on Nick Fuentes, but on the people who watch Nick Fuentes.
What kind of world have they grown up in?
These young white men.
Well, they've grown up in, over the last 10 years, a world that hates them, and not in a subtle way.
Openly, with a hut-to-like directness and ferocity.
They've grown up in a country that has systematically, in law, excluded them from the workplace, from education, from federal grants, and has told them again and again and again: no, we're not discriminating against you, and yes, you deserve it.
Imagine growing up like that.
And again, this isn't behind the scenes.
This is way out in the open.
And not only has it done exactly that to young white men, of course, white men being the one group who are officially excluded under DEI, there's only one, it's white men, white straight men.
It's not whining.
And by the way, this happens to be the one group in America who, by and large, have been taught for cultural reasons, don't whine, don't talk about yourself so much.
No one wants to hear your story.
And whatever you do, don't be the victim.
All of that's good advice, by the way.
But this group has not only been excluded with the force of law by the Justice Department in every state and at every college and university, with maybe three exceptions.
They've been mocked and attacked and lectured and harangued and screamed at.
Every bookstore in America had books on display.
Whiteness is the problem.
Well, what if you're white?
What if you're like 19 and you're thinking about how do I make my way in this increasingly competitive, maybe even ruthless country?
And everywhere I go, people are telling me I'm bad because of the way I was born.
What effect would that have on you?
And then you flip on the tube or the internet, and all these people with big jobs making big salaries who have the implied moral authority of their positions are telling you you're bad because of your skin color.
We have systemic racism in the United States of America.
It exists today.
And it's a white man's problem.
White men are responsible for it, not black men.
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And we have stood by to see mediocre, mealy-mouthed, snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other, and yet they call us snowflakes and they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth.
American history is one in which white Americans, by and large, have been taught to have indifference or even contempt for black life.
We have defined the country as a white nation where people of color are here on a guest past.
One in three Americans are racist.
One in three Americans are terrified that this country by the year 2040 is not going to be majority white.
There has been no oppression for the white man in this country.
And don't let it escape you that it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed.
Wake up, white men.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
And you're just eating it up.
Oh, my gosh.
Look at what they're doing.
All of a sudden, my heritage is going to be over.
I want to live in a country where white kids go to white schools and white people marry each other.
What is wrong with that?
I want to grow up in the country that my great-grandfather grew up in.
So you can see why there probably are some Nick Fuentes viewers who are a little confused when they hear themselves attacked as racist.
Racism is wrong.
Of course, it is wrong.
But they've grown up in a world where one of the leading CNN anchors is looking right into the camera.
What the fuck is wrong with you, white people?
You want to be near other white people?
You want to have a heritage?
You want to have white children?
How dare you?
The CNN anchor is married to a white guy, whatever.
But it's a little hard to tell people that racism is wrong when you're committing it.
And again, it's not just a few people.
It was our entire ruling class was lecturing us about how whiteness is a disease.
It's a plague.
It's inherently sinful.
It's the source of all evil.
The president of the United States stood up and said racism is the problem and it's only committed by whites.
It's a white man problem.
Is racism only committed by whites?
No.
And everyone knows that.
Hating other people is a human problem, one that every person struggles with, hopefully struggles against, because it's wrong.
It's always wrong.
Anti-Semitism is wrong.
It's every bit as wrong as what you just saw.
It's every bit as anti-black racism or anti-Malaysian race.
It doesn't matter.
Hating people for how they were born is wrong.
It's called a universal principle.
This country is founded on universal principles.
They apply to everyone equally.
That's the promise of America.
That is Western civilization.
If you could sum it up in a sentence, what is Western civilization?
It's a civilization governed by universal principles.
Everyone can be saved.
No one is damned by his nature.
And hating any group, because that's true, hating any group is by definition immoral.
Doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
It happens all the time, of course, because it's the default setting in the human heart.
But we need to struggle against it.
Maybe not ban it.
Hard to ban attitudes.
Once you get down that road, you become totalitarian immediately.
But say it's wrong.
And if it's not wrong in every case, then it can't really be wrong, can it?
If it's not a universal principle, then it's not a principle.
And so how can my racism be worse than your racism?
Well, of course, it can't.
So the people lecturing Fuentes viewers for something that is wrong, hating all Jews is wrong, totally wrong, don't have the moral authority to make the case because they've been engaging in this in public and in private for the entire lifetime of Nick Fuentes' viewers.
And by the way, you can tell exactly where this is going.
It's going toward violence, tribal warfare.
That's the last thing you want.
That's why this is a great country.
That's why it's exceptional because we haven't had that.
And why haven't we had that?
Because we have self-consciously and out loud said these are universal principles that apply to every human being because every human being was created by God in God's image.
That's it right there.
That's a Christian understanding of the human soul.
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Good, I agree.
But where was Bill Ackman when Harvard was systematically, as it is today, discriminated against people on the basis of their race?
Straight white men.
Harvard discriminates against them.
There's no guessing about that.
There was a lawsuit about it.
We have the numbers.
No one said a word.
No one said a word.
Where was Paul Singer?
These are now big Republican conservative donors.
Were they upset?
Did they say anything?
Did they do anything meaningful?
These are billionaires.
If anybody could have weighed in effectively against systemic racism, real systemic racism, causing harm, promoting one group over another on the basis of race, it would have been guys like this.
They said not a word.
Or they certainly didn't do anything about it, that's for sure.
Now they're all upset.
Well, that looks like self-interest to people watching.
These, for the fifth time, are universal principles.
The continuation of the United States depends upon those principles.
They must be vigorously defended, above all by the most powerful people in our society.
The people who not simply have a voice, but have power to enforce those principles.
The meritocracy is not just some goal that we should strive toward.
It's the whole point.
You have to judge people on their behavior, not on their blood.
Otherwise, you move very quickly into collective punishment.
This is why what Israel is doing in Gaza is immoral, not simply because it's a bloody war where civilians are being killed.
That's very common and very sad.
But what makes this different and worthy of comment is that Israeli politicians are saying out loud, and Mark Levin is joining them and saying out loud, and a number of other Americans are saying out loud, it doesn't matter if they die because they're stained from birth by this sin.
It's the opposite of universalism.
It's tribalism.
And it's certainly not unique to the Middle East at all.
And anyone who thinks it is is an idiot.
It's the human condition.
It's the state of man.
It's like the deepest, most obvious sin that we exhibit.
But it's the whole problem.
And you see it in this country too.
Oh, that's outrageous.
Really, Donny Deutsch?
Is it outrageous?
Did you say anything about the racism all around you and the elite institutions that you're so proud of being a part of?
It was the basis of those institutions.
No, we're going to help some people and hurt other people based on what their parents look like.
So why don't you sit this one out, actually?
Why don't you be quiet for a moment and think about what the core problem is?
That's the core problem right there.
It's not a defense of racism or anti-Semitism.
It's all the same.
It's the only reason to oppose it.
If it applies to you, it applies to me.
You should defend that principle as vigorously as I do.
And let's hope, there's no evidence that's happening, by the way.
Everyone's just retreating into their own little group being like, no, I don't want my people to get hurt.
No, no, no.
You don't want any person in our country ever to face that, ever.
That's why segregation was wrong.
That's why the Nazis were bad.
I mean, really?
We have to have this conversation.
Apparently we do.
It's not an attack on everyone to point that out.
It is not an attack on anyone to point that out.
It is instead a defense of everyone.
It's not an attack on anyone.
It's a defense of everyone.
It's the only defense of everyone.
And it's the only way forward.
So that's the environment that these kids grew up in.
Racism is wrong.
Anti-Semitism is wrong.
How would they even know that?
How would they know that?
Because you've been committing it.
Probably had no idea.
The second thing to remember about this audience, and I'll just say I'm 56, so like, how well do I understand Nick Fuences' audience?
I don't know, probably not that well.
But I made some effort to try to understand it, again, because it's just objectively important.
The second thing to remember is that they have been attacked, again, not making them victims, not making excuses, just trying to explain how we got here for the last 10 years because they are male, because they are men or boys.
And not just subtly with the overwhelming emphasis on female achievement in school.
And what about the girls?
How are girls doing?
Well, actually, girls are doing great.
It's the boys who are withering and dying, turning inside, internalizing the hate against them, and as is so often the case, exhibiting it as self-hate.
Not just ignored, but attacked out loud for being male by some of the most powerful people in our society.
The level of misogyny online, everything from literal threats against women in the public arena to the demeaning of women to men with very large platforms who espouse a kind of toxic masculinity connected with violence, brutality, even sometimes rape, is so shocking, but it's a reality.
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There's too much of toxicity, masculine toxicity out there.
And we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine.
We're seeing it with our younger people.
We're seeing it in our discourse and our politics in the media.
You're seeing it as it relates to so many of the issues that we're pushing back on.
So I think it's a problem.
And I'm going to continue to use this platform every time I get to speak out against this toxic masculinity that's out there.
When they talk about Republicans and their success online, they have been successful because they have also been very clear, especially digitally, about what they believe.
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I mean, this is just like the most basic life lesson.
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But there's more going on here.
So one of the saddest things that you learn when you talk to people under, say, 35 unmarried people, and most are, the average marriage age, I think, in this country is around 30.
It was, you know, in the early 20s, not that long ago.
People aren't getting married, and maybe you think that's a great thing.
Certainly, if you're a Democratic politician, you think that's great because that just means more voters for you.
But if you're like a normal person who cares about human happiness and thriving and children and continuing your country and civilization, that's a bad thing.
So the question is, how did it happen?
And if you talk to young people, it's not exactly clear what the answer is, but you notice immediately that the relationship between men and women, boys and girls, is broken on a level it's hard to see how you can fix.
I mean, contemptuous of each other, suspicious of each other, at some point dismissive of each other.
That's really what you pick up.
There's hostility.
Men feel hostile to women.
Women feel hostile to men.
Could there be anything sadder than that?
Since men and women are designed for each other, it's hard to become fully complete without the other.
That's not even a theological point.
It's a biological point.
It's true for all species, male and female.
That distinction is encoded in all of nature, in plants and animals.
It's in the universe, you might say.
It's just a fact.
And you can ignore it and pretend that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
You can come up with any slogan you want.
You can externalize your childhood trauma in any way you want and write all the books you want about how dad is bad, but you can't get around nature because you didn't create it.
You don't make the rules.
You either live by them and thrive or you ignore them and are destroyed.
That's the choice that we face, period.
I mean, you could say, you know, it's snowing outside.
I'm going to wear my underwear because I should be able to.
Well, you're going to freeze to death because it's not up to you.
And the same is true for the relationship between men and women.
You can say, I hate them.
I don't want them, but you're not going to thrive, period.
You will be miserable.
And you just saw three miserable people right on the screen.
Our society has systematically, knowingly or not, it's hard to know exactly how much was intentional, poisoned the relationship between young men and young women.
And they've done it in a bunch of different ways.
We could go on for hours on this topic, but the results tell the story.
They're not getting married because they don't like each other.
They don't know how to communicate with each other.
And above all, they think they don't need each other.
And that's a lie.
It's a lie.
So anyone who is promoting that view is at fault.
And when you're powerful and have a platform, a megaphone, when other people are watching you and taking cues from you, when you have the power to convince other people of something and to live a certain way, boy, you're guilty.
That's your fault.
So when I hear people say, well, you know, the thing about Nick Fuentes is he's a misogynist.
He doesn't like women.
Well, maybe there's some truth in that.
And that's bad, but it's not so much immoral as it is depressing.
That's the other thing.
This is a group of people whose imagination, whose moral imagination is so limited and they're so narcissistic in the way they see the world.
It's all about them.
Every person's sin is an opportunity for them to gloat about how good they are.
That it never occurs to them that this is a tragedy.
If you hear a young man say, I prefer porn to girls, or they're all sluts and they want, you know, money and they're all basically prostitutes, which is kind of the argument that you hear.
You know, you should be very upset by that, very sad about that, and mindful of what that's going to mean in 20 years on every level.
On the most obvious level, like, who's going to make the babies?
But on a deeper, more human level, like, how much misery is that?
A lot.
So, if you're adding to that, if you're attacking young men, once again, for how they were born, you are the problem.
And you share some of the responsibility for the results, for the bad attitudes that inevitably will form in the face of your hectoring.
It's your fault too.
It's our fault too.
That's just true.
And now we've reached a point where it's like an actual crisis.
And our leaders are not responding in a way that's going to make it better.
Because again, they're caught up in their own dramas, their own tribal dramas, their own personal dramas.
It's all about them always.
You watch this Mondani thing going on in New York.
Hardly an endorsement of Mandani.
I mean, please.
But like, what do you hear about the guy?
80% of the criticism of Mandani is like his position on Gaza.
Who cares?
What does that have to do with anything in New York City?
Who cares what he thinks of Gaza or BB?
That's far away and not relevant.
This is a guy who said out loud on camera, and then once again, out loud on camera, defending the first time he said it, I'm going to tax white people more because they're white.
Does anyone even notice that?
No, because the people who don't like him have, they don't care because they don't see a connection between what happens to those white people and what might happen to some group or cause they're interested in.
They're unwilling to defend the universal principle.
And so they're just, it's just more self-interest.
How dare you say that about Gaza?
Wait a second.
This is mayor the biggest city just said he's going to, he's going to tax white people more?
Well, you're just saying that because you're white.
No.
Saying it because I'm a human being and a Christian.
And that's not acceptable.
Your leaders can't talk or think that way.
Or else it all just falls apart.
And in a country that's the size of a continent with 50 component parts, it could fall apart really, really fast and become super, super ugly.
Maybe because you told them the hormones they were born with were toxic.
What are they supposed to do with that?
Transition?
Well, a lot of them did.
Cut your dick off.
The ultimate sign of bowing before authority.
You're right.
I'll self-castrate.
And again, a lot did.
But what about the ones who didn't want to self-castrate?
Where are they?
Well, they're pissed.
And they're pissed at you.
They're mad at you and they have every good reason to be mad at you.
Period.
The third lesson we should take from the fact that Nick Fuentes, who everyone's busy done, Nick Fuentes, he's the problem.
Right.
Yeah, he's the problem.
Some 27-year-old can say, he's the problem.
No, you're the problem, actually.
And the third factor in his popularity is the fact, the uncontestable fact that the economy, the rest of us in our 50s, 60s, and 70s, people have all the money have created is destroying young people.
Just a fact.
And it's not just that they, it's not just that they can't have, you know, the place in Greenwich and the place in Jackson Hole.
No, they can't have any place.
They can't have anything.
They can't own anything.
And rather than even spend a day thinking through like, how do we fix this?
The answer is, well, we'll just import people who are grateful for what they're getting here because the differential between what they got at home and got here is pretty big.
Look, if you're from Oaxaca or Bangalore, like not owning a home in your 30s is fine.
You never expected to own a home anyway.
So you're just, you're just happy to be here and you're grateful to people who brought you and you'll vote for them.
That is literally their thinking.
And it's demonstrable it's their thinking.
But for people who were born here, what a betrayal.
What a terrible betrayal and worse than a betrayal.
Here's just an overview of it.
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Buying a home has never been harder.
The average first-time buyer is now 40 years old and it's more expensive to own.
Nationally, the median price of a home is $415,000, up more than 50% since 2019.
If you buy that average price home now, the payment is roughly $2,000 a month.
When you pay it off in 30 years, it would have cost you about $657,000.
Just six years ago, you'd have paid $1,500 a month and about $563,000 total.
The dream of owning a home is causing some Americans to rethink important milestones.
A new survey by Coldwell Banker finds 71% of aspiring homeowners are postponing at least one life decision, like getting married, having kids, or making career moves until they can afford to buy a home.
Probably the top issue for young men in their 20s and 30s are a lot of issues.
By the way, at a time when they can't buy a home, the idea of sending money to a foreign country, particularly Israel, but all countries, any country, Sudan, France, pretty offensive because it is, after all, their government.
They pay for it.
You know, why wouldn't it offend them?
But not being able to buy a home, if you ask any young person, or at least the dozen or two I've asked, number one, like I grew up in a home, not an apartment, not Section 8, not a rental house, but like a house that I own.
Not a huge house, but it's like a house.
I could go to Home Depot, buy garden hose, fix the gutter.
Like that's kind of the dream, actually, for most men.
And in that home, I have my wife, my children, and my dog.
Like, it's not, these are not crazy aspirations.
These are the most human aspirations men think about when they go to sleep at night.
It's like my little house.
There's nothing more male than that.
You know, it's my cave.
And they're being denied that.
So they're upset.
And increasingly, they feel nihilistic.
And why wouldn't they?
But the question that too few ask is, well, why can't they buy a home?
Like, what is that?
And you often hear dumb people say, we just don't have enough homes.
Okay.
Don't have enough homes.
We need to take like Yellowstone and build Section 8 or something.
Morons.
And of course, supply and demand is real.
And so, you know, there are fewer homes than we would like to have.
And so the price rises.
Okay, but that's not really the whole story.
There are a bunch of factors.
One, big companies buying homes and turning them into rentals.
Why would you ever allow that?
If you want a revolution, keep that up.
Two is we just have more people.
Density is a real thing.
This is a great country because it's not an overpopulated country.
It's not Bangladesh, not just because we're better than the Bangladeshis, but because there are fewer of us in a bigger piece of land.
You don't want to live cheek to jowl.
It makes people crazy.
It makes rats crazy and it makes people crazy.
Nobody wants that.
But we're getting it and we're getting it through immigration.
Illegal and legal.
We're being flooded with people from outside the country.
And everyone's like, oh, wow, you know, that's a racial thing.
Okay.
Maybe for some people, there are racial elements for sure.
Certainly a lot of cultural elements that are important.
But like at root, it's a very simple question.
It's nothing to do with ethnicity or even culture.
It's like, how many people do you want living near you?
So many you can't afford a house?
That's kind of an overlooked byproduct of stuffing the country full of people who are here because they're inexpensive to employ and grateful to be here.
It's a massive byproduct.
But there's another factor that's never mentioned, and that's debt.
Young people are totally in hockey.
They are completely indebted.
They have student loans.
They were required to get a degree or told they were required to get a degree to get some job that no longer exists because it's been eliminated or H-1B'd or whatever.
The jobs aren't there.
Unemployment among recent college grads is out of control, out of control.
Are they becoming more moderate once they leave college, like hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt?
They followed every instruction they were given dutifully because young people are actually pretty dutiful.
And in this country, young people, some of them are really smart for real.
Talk to them.
They're tons of losers, of course.
There always are, but the smart ones are really smart and very aware of what's going on.
And they know that they've been completely betrayed.
They did what they were told to do.
And they're shafted.
They're literally shafted because they don't have enough income.
In some cases, any.
So what are they doing?
They're going into debt.
They have student loans.
They have credit card debt.
And of course, now there are all these other ways to borrow money that are disguised.
Buy now pay later.
What's that?
You're going into debt.
Of course.
And what's so interesting about this, and this is a problem primarily on the right, though not exclusively, is that no one has sympathy for them at all.
Conservatives, I hate to say this out loud, but it's true.
Conservatives have been trained to blame the borrower, not the lender.
It's like a feature of the mindset.
Well, you took the loan.
You've got to pay it back.
It's your moral duty to pay it back.
Pay back what you owe.
Don't be a deadbeat.
Okay, fine.
Get it.
Like it.
But is it really that simple?
No, it's not.
Because the relationship between borrower and lender is inherently symbiotic.
One cannot exist without the other.
What other relationship is like that?
What other fraught, sad, diseased relationship is like that?
Well, addict and pusher.
Of course.
You can't be a drug addict unless someone sells you drugs.
And yet, we understand the complexity of that relationship and we punish both.
In fact, we punish the drug dealer more harshly than we punish the drug addict because we understand that the drug dealer is making all this suffering possible.
And we feel sorry for the addict.
Well, he's an addict.
We can punish him.
And by the way, throwing him in jail might be the only way to sober him up.
It might save his life.
And we should for his own sake and for ours.
Stop breaking into my car.
Got it.
But the drug dealer, well, we reserve our rage for him because he's the one doing it.
He's taking advantage of the weak.
And that's all true.
And that's appropriate to feel that way.
It's exactly right.
But we don't feel that way about credit card companies or student loan vendors or the guys who are literally offering buy now pay later for DoorDash.
Some unemployed or underemployed college grad went to some crappy college, got a worthless degree because he believed in it.
Now he can't get a job at JP Morgan.
He's never going to get one.
And we are telling him it's totally cool to buy sushi on credit.
The guy who borrows the money or the guy who loans the money at some ridiculous rate.
Payday loans in this country, there are payday loans that have a 600% annual interest rate.
And we kind of ignore it because we're like, who would take a payday loan?
You know, that's like a ghetto thing.
Okay.
Okay, fine.
It's a ghetto thing.
But who would do that to the ghetto, actually?
Who would do something like that?
If somebody said to you, you know, you can make a pretty good living exploiting and degrading people, destroying their lives, would you do it?
Hope not.
But if you did do it, the rest of us would have a moral obligation to say, you are disgusting.
That's disgusting, what you're doing.
And we don't.
And we especially don't on the right because it's immoral to criticize banks or something because you don't believe in free markets.
Well, yeah, I wish we had them.
Of course, I believe in free markets.
Where is the free market in the United States?
When you find it, you've got my cell.
But what we have to be against, and this is more important than whatever you believe about the effectiveness of relative economic systems, we have to be against exploiting and crushing people.
And if we're not, then what are we doing?
And it's not even a matter of banning it.
It's a matter of saying it's disgusting.
30% interest credit card?
And that's totally fine.
I must have done 15 segments at Fox News about how Joe Biden's real sin was making credit card debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Oh, who cares?
Well, you're against capitalism.
If you want to make people against capitalism, let that shit continue and they will absolutely vote for Mondani.
And they have, by the way, they have.
So if you want to understand why young people are getting radical, one of the main reasons is they are being exploited by the most unscrupulous, richest people in our society and then being blamed for it.
And no one says a word about the rich, unscrupulous people who are doing this because everyone's taking money from them.
And you saw this in the last amendment, the Democratic, the Liberal administration.
So the idea was, and it's true, young people are being destroyed by student loans.
Okay, that's true.
Who's benefiting from that?
Well, the colleges, of course, are benefiting because it's allowing them to hire more administrators than they have professors.
It's allowing them to live in this kind of fantasy world where they build this incredibly beautiful little biosphere in the middle of some economically depressed hellscape in a rural area.
That's true of like every New England college.
Bates College in Lewiston.
Ever been to Lewiston?
Bates is beautiful.
Why?
Because they're participating in the scam, of course.
Backstopped by the federal government, by student loans.
So they're the beneficiary.
They're the loan shark here, actually.
And so were the companies that are getting rich from this.
But what was the Biden plan?
The Biden plan was to stick taxpayers with the bill for bailing out students.
So they identified the problem correctly, which is kids are getting completely screwed.
That's terrible.
And it's preventing them from having productive lives, getting married, buying houses.
It's hurting them.
So who gets to fix it?
You do.
You've got nothing to do with it.
You're probably paying your own kids tuition, but you get to bail them out.
And guess who's not blamed or punished?
The beneficiaries, the lenders.
Because you can't criticize the banks, can't criticize the universities.
Oh, yes, you can.
Yes, you can.
Because it's not exclusively their fault.
It's primarily their fault.
And they've dodged all responsibility, just like everyone who's made life-destroying decisions in this country over the past 20 years.
The truly guilty have escaped not just punishment, but criticism.
Yeah, that can't go on forever.
And in the meantime, it's creating a whole new audience, not just for Fuentes, but for a lot of increasingly radical people, because that's what happens when you mistreat people and then attack them for not liking it, is you make them radical.
As important as it is, politics is not the answer to this country's or man's greatest problem.
The only solution is Jesus.
Sorry, that's true.
At its core, politics is a process of critiquing other people and getting them to change.
Christianity is the opposite.
Christianity begins with a call for you to change, me to change.
It's called repentance and it brings you back to God.
When God is at the center, hearts change.
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The good news is that not all of them are radical.
A lot of them are just clear thinking and sensible and decent and committed to universal principles of human rights and decency in that generation.
The real surprise here is how moderate a lot of these kids are.
You would expect them to be a lot more pissed off and they will get that way soon.
But for right now, most of them, most of them are decent people and smart.
They know what's up.
One of them is called Nalen Haley.
We thought a lot before doing this interview, the one we're about to do, because the man we're about to talk to is 24 and is the son of Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, presidential candidate, neocon.
And there's really nothing more immoral than using a child against a parent.
I've been a consistent and pretty strident opponent of Nikki Haley's views for a long time.
And so the idea of interviewing her son and being like, doesn't your mom suck?
That's disgusting, and we're never going to do that.
And so, we had a lot of conversations off camera with him before this interview.
And it turns out he really likes his mom a lot and thinks she was a great mother and she's a great person.
And he completely disagrees with some of her views, maybe a lot of her views, while still loving her and remaining grateful to her.
And that in itself is just such a remarkable model of what this country should be, the way that we should all be, but increasingly are not.
And so, we were delighted to talk to this man.
And I think, and I think if you listen carefully, you will think that he has one of the, from a young person, one of the clearest explanations for how a lot of young Americans, not just white men, but a lot of young people now currently feel about their leaders, the conservative movement, and where we're going.
So, the main reason I interviewed Nick Fuentes is because I wanted to know why Nick Fuentes was popular.
And let me just say, none of this is about Nick Fuentes.
It's not about one guy, but here you had a guy who was, you know, everyone hated him, he was canceled, and he's getting bigger and bigger, bigger, bigger.
And I thought, it's possible he's saying some things that are dumb, or probably, you know, but some things that need to be heard and that are not being heard and that are appealing to young men who feel like they aren't being heard.
And maybe we should hear this and maybe even act on some of these problems before things get even crazier than they already are.
So I want to talk to you now because I have no idea what you think of Nick Fuentes.
I'm not even going to ask you, but because I think that young men are reacting against a society that hates them and have these attitudes we need to hear about.
So thank you.
Have your political views changed in the last five years?
Con Inc. is basically your typical conservative media, you know, very typical Republican, not any sort of nationalist, you know, the type of legal immigration, good, illegal, bad, you know.
Right.
And it's, it's, it got tiring.
And I was like, I don't want to just accept what's given to me, like right in front of me.
I just, they are, to me, the worst people in the world.
They are vultures and blood-sucking leeches who care nothing about the country.
They thrive off the destruction of the United States.
They have no loyalty to a country, to an ideology, to a people, only their money and the ratings.
And the way that they get that is through sowing division and chaos, because that's how they know people watch them more.
That's how they get more money.
And so it's very similar to the way the greedy anti-American corporations are in that they don't care about American values, American identity, American sovereignty, American workers, American people.
And therefore, we shouldn't care about them.
So some, I assume, are good people to quote our president.
So that was, but I, of course I never told anybody my views.
And now it's very known that I have different views than my mom, which is also very funny because it's like, whenever anybody says that, they're like, I can't believe that you have different views.
It's just, it makes no sense to me why we have special status for certain other countries, why we have a special status for certain corporations, certain groups.
It's like, why?
We have people struggling here.
We have people below the poverty line.
We have bad schools.
We have people going into debt because they broke a bone.
I would say a big part of that is the economic issues that we see.
So the goal of every generation, right, is to leave it better than you found it.
And right now we're not just not doing that.
We're going in the opposite direction.
It's getting worse.
And I noticed that, you know, you used to have like a choice.
You either for free market neoliberalism or you were a mom Donnie style socialist.
And it's like, no, capitalism is actually a very broad thing, right?
So I was upset because we're not allowed to criticize corporations who are clearly not putting American workers first or the country first.
And the Republican Party historically has been like, you can't criticize that.
You can't criticize the free markets.
And I don't even like to call it free markets.
It's more like lawless markets, actually.
And that's actually the same structure that destroyed industrial America.
All of those factory worker jobs that are in Ohio, in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, that all got sent over to China and other foreign countries.
It seems like one of the main control devices employed by Khan Inc., as you call the institutional conservatives who are not conservative in any sense, but whatever, was to just call you a socialist.
If you talked about Israel, you're an anti-Semitic.
If you talked about the collapsing, inverting American economy where a tiny group got everything, you were a socialist.
And it's never going to go away because anything that's a threat to, like I said, just like the media, any corporate money or anything that they don't make their quarterly goal or their profit, then yeah, they're going to call anyone a socialist because just being against them, they want to label you because it scares people.
But they use it in the wrong way because they want to label someone to say, hey, don't talk about that.
He's this.
He's that.
He's a socialist.
And it's used to kind of delegitimize you.
But I think when you look at the Republican Party now, it is now becoming more of the party of the working class.
And my generation is kind of responsible for that.
I think it was Newsweek that reported something that in the 90s or 80s, something like that, they did a survey which said, which party is the party of the working class?
Like 90% said Democrats.
It was unanimous, right?
Like everyone knew the Democrat Party meant working people.
The last conversation I had on camera with Charlie Kirk was about the debt that young people are incurring, not just their student loans, which are, I think, the biggest, but their credit cards, their buy now, pay later scams.
And that's everywhere in South Carolina, not just there.
And it's beyond frustrating that people of the past generations are not doing what parents should do, which is have your kids have a greater life than you did.
George Bush was probably the worst president in modern America by far.
When you look at the amount of debt, like when we talked about the 38.2 trillion, I mean, think about how much of that was Iraq, Afghanistan, all of that.
And we don't have anything to show for it, really.
I mean, Iraq is now a basically a satellite state of Iran, you know, that was a deterrent to one of America's enemies, and now it's just a puppet state.
And you have Afghanistan, which, you know, understand attacking al-Qaeda.
I never felt it was as central as it turned out to be because that's, I just didn't understand it very well.
But Fuentes is famous for saying naughty things, but also saying like, you know, pretty straightforward critique of the control that Israel has over the United States.
So those are two things that I think if we cut out the aid, cut out the lobbying, I think it'll stop a lot of influence, not just from Israel, but from every country.
So 2016, Trump brought a spotlight on illegal immigration, and that was really desperately needed because we had seen it, but no one really said the obvious.
Now we need to do the same with legal immigration.
And it's funny when I've started speaking out against that.
The amount of legal immigrants in this country, the amount of children of immigrants in this country who have come up to me and say, thank you for speaking about that, is shocking in some ways, but it's also not shocking because it's directly impacting them.
How ironic is it that someone leaves their country in search of the American dream to give their kids a better life only for their kids to grow up and have the job that they want being sent back to the country that they came from?
And I do see like a lot of there are some, on the other hand, who are legal immigrants, who are children of immigrants, who are saying that's hypocritical of me.
You know, no one should, well, because of my grandparents who immigrated here, which is back in 1969.
And my response is always like, it's not 1969.
We have a very different country.
We have a very different set of circumstances.
Therefore, it's then rational to the people who are going to be able to do that.
Now I have to do the same thing and believe the same thing they did, which I know damn well they don't, because if they did, they wouldn't have the progressive views that they have because no grandparents had that progressive views.
But they want to put it on me because they're mad that someone with my identity has the views that I have.
Yeah, they think that I owe them my loyalty because of some decision my grandparents made, which is stupid because all I've known is America.
All I know is American culture.
I love the South.
I love Southern culture.
I only speak English.
I'm a Christian.
Why would I care about anything else?
Exactly.
And so you have the legal immigrants and the children of immigrants who are upset at me and who called me racist, all sorts of things.
And it's racist.
Yeah, racist for saying we don't need more people here.
But it's ridiculous.
But the reality is that when those people who are calling me racist lose their job, they need to remember that it was the people that they called racist that were actually trying to save their job from being taken by a foreigner.
And there's so many different aspects to immigration that it's not just the migration part of it, but a lot of other things that are just out of control.
Like what?
So naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office.
Growing up here is a big part of understanding the country.
We need to stop and limit the amount of foreign students that are coming into our universities.
Some of them are spies, by the way, for foreign governments.
But it's also just we should put our kids first.
Yes.
And we should also not allow dual citizenship because that's the stupidest idea.
You're either American or you're not.
And everyone wants to make it so complicated.
That's the thing that I don't like about the past generation is they're always about the rules, the process, and regulation.
No, it's really simple.
You're just America first.
People should have their loyalty to America first.
And if they can't do that, then this ain't the country for you.
So my sense, but you would know, is that what everything you just said for the past half an hour is like basically what most young men your age think who are conservative.
And you have Democrats who have kind of listened to young people on their side.
So when they're not listening to us on the Republican side, yeah, it's pretty frustrating.
You have Democrats who have the first Gen Z member of Congress.
They have the AOC, they have the Imam Dani, they have all these young, youthful figures who are doing pretty well making media, you know, advocating for their causes.
But who do we have?
You know, it's frustrating that we can't look to someone and say, that's our guy.
Or they just don't want to face the problems that we're putting forth, which is the issues on the economy, the issues on immigration, because they'd rather just call us radical.
For sure, it makes people radical because they get so angry.
And when people are angry and they feel like they have no one speaking for them, then yeah, of course they're going to get angry because we deserve representation.
That's the whole point of this democracy, our system, is that you should be able to have someone who represents you.
And we don't have that.
And not just don't have that.
It'd be one thing if we didn't have someone who we felt we could relate to.
That's fine.
That's normal.
You can't relate to everybody.
But someone who's actively ignoring the problems that we're saying, these are massive problems.
That's something I've said for years is that, and literally years, I've been saying the future of division in this country is not all these other things like race or income.
I mean, those may be some issues, but the massive division in this country in the future is going to be between gender, men and women.
That's especially problematic because in order for a society to function, men need women, women need men.
There are women who are traditional, but for the most part, men are more traditional in my generation.
And I think they're going in different directions, but they're going in different directions for a lot of the same reasons, which is empowerment.
Women see themselves as going the more progressive lane, that it's empowering to wear revealing clothes or do whatever you want and be promiscuous, which is actually the male gaze of someone who just wants to view them as an object and not care about who they are as a person, which is how is that empowering?
It's ridiculous that that's seen as feminist, though.
But the reason why I think that is because on the other hand, you have men, and this is not a majority of traditional men, but there's this very small minority where they feel insecure and powerless.
They think that them having a traditional mindset where they're the leader, they're the provider, they're the protector, and they think because of that, my role is better than that of a woman.
What that does, that's wrong, first of all.
But what that does is that it gives ammo to the feminists who are like, look, see, see women, what we've been trying to tell you, that they think they're better than you.
You have to go our way.
When in reality, that's not what tradition is at all.
It's, yes, men are the leader, provider, protector, all of that.
But there's a difference between what we're seeing now, which is actual lived faith in Christ.
And we're seeing that in church attendances going up among young men.
Really, I don't know what brought it about.
The only thing I could attribute it to is probably the Holy Spirit.
Yep.
And I don't know why it's happening now, but I hope it grows and I hope it continues to flourish because it's something our society desperately, desperately needs.
And I just remember that as young as like third grade, when my friends would check out their books on dinosaurs and cars and all that stuff, I was reading on every single world religion and trying to absorb as much as I can because I wanted to know if God exists.
But, and then I would say, like, Around like seventh grade, so like this is a few years of just researching this stuff obsessively, I and I was reluctant to speak about this publicly, but I figured if it blesses just one person, then I'll say it here.
I had an experience where I was researching, and it was as if in an instant I heard, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
And as if the knowledge, the truth of God was placed instantly after that was said in my mind and in my heart.
And it's funny, after all these years, I've struggled to really put into words that experience and that feeling.
But once that happened, I had always heard about the Holy Spirit, right?
Everyone hears about it.
But when that happened, I was like, oh, that's what that is, right?
Like, because it was just some mythical thing that I had read about.
But then it happened, and I was just like, this is really interesting.
And it'd be one thing to just write off as, oh, that's just some weird thing, weird experience, but it never left me.
And the most interesting part and the part that I kind of like the most is it was none of my research on these world religions that got me to that answer.
Not at all.
It was an instant.
I was very much a skeptic of Christianity prior to that, the second before that happened.
It was an instant realization that was not of any of my own work.
And what made it so beautiful was that not long after that, I was reading the gospel and I found where Jesus said to Peter, then Simon, blessed are you, Simon, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.
I was like, that's what that was.
And then I also read where he said, knock and the door will be open to you.
Seek and you'll find.
And it's just a beautiful thing when you realize that God is true to his word every single time.
like you know she's seen how toxic and exhausting it is so it's like it's a rough yeah like it's Yeah, it really is.
And so, no, what I would rather have is people do their job, not wait for problems to come to them, but really get on top of them, you know, not be so reactionary.
I would rather that.
But if no one does that, then I don't know, maybe no one speaks up, no one's saying the things they need to, then, you know, that's not something I'm thinking about right now, but someone has to do it.
And so I would rather the people right now in office and our leaders, so-called leaders, do it now.
But yeah, someone's going to have to do it because we can't just keep ignoring these problems.