Nick Fuentes on today's social media: “It's filled with this kind of content, conspiracy content, Israel-critical content. … I benefited from it, profited from it, from an ideological point of view, from a monetary point of view.”
Fuentes: “As we know, for 10 years, it was the complete opposite. If anyone even hinted at those sorts of things, they were immediately eradicated. … Now all of a sudden, it's everywhere, and it's on all the platforms for everybody.”
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From the January 15, 2026, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
NICK FUENTES (GUEST): Yeah, I'm warming up a little bit to Trump in the past couple of weeks. I mean, some of the things he's been doing are positive. I still have a lot of the same apprehensions about the deportations and Iran, and, you know, we could get into that. But, you know, kind of picking up on where we left off before, you know, the thing is about when you wake up with regard to Israel and the red pill and all these things, I think what tends to happen with a lot of people is when you destroy the credibility of the mainstream media, when you destroy these narratives you believed in for your whole life, it's easy then to become completely disoriented.
And then you don't, like you said before, you don't know where to look. You don't know what's going on, where the problem's coming from. And I think this is the experience of a lot of the, of people in the past couple of years. People have started to wake up. They've gotten red pilled, in 2024, 2025 recently. And I said this on Telegram. This is kind of like a subtle thing, that I hope maybe your viewers can kind of understand if you'll stay with me here a little bit. A lot of people that have gotten very engaged in politics and on this issue in the past couple of years, they're not actually political people. They're not actually conventionally political people. They're not interested in political issues necessarily. I call them disgruntled normies.
And so there are a lot of people that didn't really pay attention, but something has been happening lately, and this is maybe a bit suspicious, which is that all of a sudden, our timelines on Instagram and Twitter and everywhere, TikTok even, it's filled with this kind of content, conspiracy content, Israel-critical content, that sort of thing. And the reason I say that it's a little bit suspicious, of course, I benefited from it, profited from it, from an ideological point of view, from a monetary point of view. I'm happy about it. It's the kind of content that I post, and it's the kind of ideas that I promote.
But as we know, for 10 years, it was the complete opposite. If anyone even hinted at those sorts of things, they were immediately eradicated. And so much effort went into this. AI algorithms and moderation teams, and the rules kept getting more and more convoluted.
Now all of a sudden, it's everywhere, and it's on all the platforms for everybody. And you could be on Instagram for five minutes, and then you're getting a clip about how Israel did 9/11. You're getting a clip and it's an AI-translated Hitler speech. And so, it's sort of a mystery why that happened and what was the driving force behind it. Nevertheless, it happened. And so suddenly, all these new people have been drafted into the ranks, let's say, of truth tellers, red pillers, and it's great. You know, the more the merrier, welcome in.
Here's the issue though with the disgruntled normie. Many of the disgruntled normies are still very left-leaning. They still have many of what you would call their ideological priors. And by that, I mean, they're kind of foundational ideas about morality and the world and how it works. And so they're basically still a left-leaning normie, like a center-left normie that doesn't know that much about politics. They didn't go through a libertarian phase. They didn't go through a conservative phase. They kind of started as a Redditor, and now they have these facts, armed with some of these facts. And as I've said on my show, I think this makes people vulnerable to ideological capture by other groups.