Megyn Kelly Channel host: Nick Fuentes' audience is “looking of some criticism of the MAGA movement from the right, and one of the only places they find it is in Fuentes”
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Emily Jashinsky on the Nick Fuentes' appeal
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From the November 18, 2025, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
EMILY JASHINSKY (HOST, THE MEGYN KELLY WRAP-UP SHOW): There are people who listen to Nick Fuentes who are not actual bigots, and that is one of the interesting things about Dasha who does listen. She's a Catholic convert who does listen to Fuentes and references Fuentes. You actually learn a bit about the appeal that Fuentes has with some younger non-bigoted people, which again, I don't listen to Fuentes. I'm not listening to America First. That's just not happening. But there are people who do, and they are worth understanding because they're looking for criticism — my theory is, they're looking of some criticism of the MAGA movement from the right, and one of the only places they find it is in Fuentes.
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): That's such a — such a good point. It is more important right now to figure out why is he so popular than to just try to cancel anybody who is trying to figure it out. Right? Like, why don't we stop and consider the mission that they're on?
Why is he so popular? Why? And I know, of course, our Jewish friends are like, he hates Jews. That's all we need to know. But it's not all we need to know because there is a growing number of disaffected young men in particular in America who are really deeply unhappy and have been told they're to blame for all of society's ills, and his message is resonating with them.
He talks about more than Jews and Blacks and women on his show. When he talks about those groups, it's not great. It's not great for any one of those three categories. I can attest to that. But it's not all he talks about.
And so some of his stuff is compelling, and it's very interesting, and he says it very well. He's a persuasive arguer. So I understand the perceived threat with him, but what we need to figure out is why? What is it about him? And I think from that standpoint, these interviews do have real value because maybe there really is a need that needs to be filled by somebody for whom the price of admission is not so high, right? You don't have to get through all of that bile in order to hear somebody say these other things.