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They don't appear afraid of fuentes because he doesn't have nearly the power or support trump does. If fuentes won a presidential election, that'd change.
You didn't address any of the differences in views between fuentes and progressives? If you asked a progressive to list the political views or issues they cared the most about, fuentes would strongly disagree with them.
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That's putting the cart before the horse though. You're assuming it's a small difference.
Both might engage in identity politics, but on opposite sides. Which is arguably more of a practical difference.
The woke left is a subset of identity politics. The white nationalist right is a subset of identity politics. But that gap is pretty severe.
Its more of a "real" Satanist (i.e. not atheists) vs Christian difference rather than 2 sects of Christianity. They both believe that God and Satan exist yes but their actions will be very different. If real Satanists commit acts the Devil likes as part of their practice it's likely that Christians and say Hindus would be closer to each other practically than either are to the devil worshippers even if the Christians and devil worshippers share the same cosmology and underpinning belief system, whereas the Christians and Hindus do not.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty...
When Trump met with Nick Fuentes, the media hydra wasn't crying about the dangerous Trump subverting the innocent Hispanic young adult, was it?
Why be afraid of Fuentes anyway?
He's a 25 years old college drop-out.
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