Influential Anti-Woke Activist Is Open to Working With Racists and Fascists

A top ally of presidential hopeful Gov. Ron Desantis (R-FL) wants to see an armistice between the establishment Republican Party and the racists and fascists who are excited about its current trajectory.

If this kind of ceasefire sounds absurd, that’s because it is—and a less explicit version of this strategy is already assumed by diehard pro-Trump factions of the GOP, and is wreaking havoc against the Party in profound ways.

Christopher Rufo, a high-profile right-wing activist at the Manhattan Institute credited with forging the frameworks of modern moral panics about critical race theory and LGBTQ-inclusive educational programming, hosted a live voice chat on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in which one participant floated an ear-burning idea: if a “real white nationalist” were to rise to power, mainstream conservative movements should want to align with that person to “destroy the power of the left.”

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