Megyn Kelly: It’s More Important To Figure Out Why Nick Fuentes Is So Popular Than To Cancel Anybody Trying To
MEGYN KELLY SHOW: Megyn Kelly is joined by Emily Jashinsky, host of “After Party with Emily Jashinsky,” to discuss Dasha Nekrasova being dropped from her agency and movie after her Nick Fuentes interview, the effort to cancel individuals for interviewing certain people, and more.
MEGYN KELLY: 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. Like, why don’t we stop and consider the mission that they’re on? Like, 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, like, 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’s 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? Like, you don’t have to get through all that bile in order to hear somebody say these other things. And I’m like, I’m sick and tired though, of like the New York Times saying he’s the new Charlie, like he’s filling the void Charlie left, that’s all bullshit, no, he’s not. Those who couldn’t stand each other. Charlie was noble and beautiful and faith based, and a God loving Christian. Nick Fuentes is not noble, and he’s not beautiful. He’s angry, and I understand, and I actually like I forgive him / his anger. Clearly, he’s had, like, some bad things happen to him, and I get all that. I hope as he matures, he understands that it’s not the right move to blame it on whole groups of people or condemn whole groups because you’ve been treated wrong, whether it’s by a woman or a person of color or a Jewish person, whatever it is he’s doing, because he does have the shot if he were able to somehow reform those other things, of being like a hugely consequential figure, and I don’t know, he doesn’t seem to have any interest, for now, in doing anything on those other fronts. He seems to really revel in alienating those groups and saying the most hateful things possible about them.
