Trumpian decadence takes many forms, “coherent expression of the right-wing politics of desire” that depends on measuring it with a yardstick. Then there’s Laura Loomer’s lookism, speculating about killer’s identity, and Nick Fuentes proclaiming that condom use is “gay”. Nazi streaks are manifested as skid marks.
President Trump defended Mr. Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes, an openly antisemitic white supremacist. Hours later, Mr. Fuentes wrote “Thank you Mr. President!”
In late October, Mr. Carlson, a top surrogate for Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign who was given a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention last year, interviewed Mr. Fuentes on his podcast. During their discussion, Mr. Carlson attacked Republicans who closely backed Israel, calling them “Christian Zionists” who had been “seized by this brain virus.”
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On Sunday, Mr. Trump, speaking of Mr. Carlson as he traveled back to the White House after spending the weekend golfing at Mar-a-Lago, said, “You can’t tell him who to interview.” The president then insisted that he “didn’t know much about” Mr. Fuentes, whom he previously dined with at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, an episode that also caused a furor.
If Mr. Carlson wanted to interview Mr. Fuentes, then “get the word out,” Mr. Trump said. “People have to decide. Ultimately people have to decide.”
Mr. Fuentes, who had previously bragged that the silence from the White House over the episode was a sign of his growing influence on the right, shared Mr. Trump’s defense of Mr. Carlson on social media, writing “Thank you Mr. President!”
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This is nuts!
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) Nov 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Senators are investigating a Trump-era official who allegedly interfered in a federal investigation to help Andrew Tate. This official previously worked for the Tates—then joined the White House.
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NEW: Sen. Blumenthal & Rep. Peters launched an inquiry into Trump aide Paul Ingrassia's involvement in the federal investigation of Tristan and Andrew Tate after @propublica.org reported that the former White House liaison to DHS personally intervened on behalf of the alleged sex traffickers.
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Paul Ingrassia said he has a “Nazi streak.” That holidays celebrating Black Americans “need to be eviscerated,” that you should “never trust a chinaman or an Indian,” that “we need competent white men in positions of leadership,” and that “the founding fathers were wrong about all men being equal.”
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The sedition trial of five members of the extremist group The Proud Boys is underway in Washington, D.C., and the public is getting an in-depth look into the inner workings of the “Western Chauvinist” mens club.
On Monday, prosecutors entered a handbook into evidence that has been provided to Proud Boys members. The guidelines outline everything from the groups ideology, communal initiation procedures, group songs and chants, to bizarre rules banning individual behavior including the wearing of fedoras … and masturbation.
“This is our religion,” reads one rule. “A Proud Boy may not ejaculate alone more often than once every thirty days […] if he needs to ejaculate it must be within one yard of a woman with her consent. The woman may not be a prostitute.”
The rule also denies an exception for cyber-sex with one’s wife.
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Ernst Julius Günther Röhm was a German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. A close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA). killed in the Night of the Long Knives.
Theweleit identifies this clearly in Male Fantasies, arguing that, for the fascist (or protofascist) man, sexuality is experienced more as an attack on sexuality itself rather than an expression of desire. The erotics of authoritarian desire are thus short-circuited, routed instead toward hatred for what is outside, destruction of the body of the other, and brutality toward difference. The rejection of a desire for difference, as a rejection of desire, full stop, can be read through all kinds of authoritarian urges to expel, exclude, or annihilate.
On a recent stream, far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes ranted about his virginity to defend himself from attacks that he is “gay.”
Fuentes is somewhat well-known for his volcel (voluntarily celibate) position, which he advocates for all young men on the far right. In the course of this rant, Fuentes argues that, in fact, it is men who have sex with women who are the real gay ones. This seemingly puzzling tirade draws laughs and confusion. What does it mean for a man to fuck a woman in a way that makes him gay? Many seem to believe he’s just committed some basic error, as if he simply doesn’t know what being gay is. I’m going to treat this claim as if it isn’t an error but is instead a coherent expression of the right-wing politics of desire. In other words, what if it really is gay to be straight?
Through a psychoanalytic understanding of desire as something that makes us what we are, I want to rethink Fuentes’s claim that it would be gay for him to sleep with a woman. One of the basic contentions is that to be a person, like we are, is always to fail to have what we need. We’re born young and helpless. We require a long period of care, wherein we often cannot even clearly articulate what it is that we need (we often hold the fantasy that we can in adulthood, but even that is suspect for many of us). During this long period of need, a mother (or mother figure) both supplies the object of our desires and frustrates our needs. Sometimes she knows what we want, and sometimes she doesn’t. This period of time is what’s understood as infantile sexuality. In the first few years of our lives, we have wants that need to be fulfilled, and their fulfillment give us pleasure. This is a more expansive understanding of sexuality that doesn’t focus on genital pleasure but on the holistic ways we can experience pleasure.
Routing Fuentes’s claims through a psychoanalytic understanding of desire and subjective creation reveals that, at its most basic level, heteropatriarchy requires men to be averse to nongenital sexuality. As Freud understands it, genital sexuality posits that someone who has matured will experience desire and pleasure only genitally and only for a heterosexual object-choice outside of the family. Genital sexuality is when you let go of your mother to find your wife. So the story goes: we lose our attractions and desires for our parents and instead seek to fulfill our desires in the psychosexually developed way. Sexuality isn’t solely made up of what we tend to think of as sexual activity but includes the whole of how and what we desire, as well as the objects that fulfill those desires.
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