It's unavoidable at this point. Nick Fuentes is just 26 years old and has already, for years, been the most banned voice in the USA - even earlier, and even more so, than Alex Jones, who was already a household name by the time the censorship machine kicked into gear against him - but his content is nonetheless among the most-discussed in American political/social commentary online. (That
I can see anyway - which may just be a reflection my 'social media feed/bubble'!)
The closest precedent/comparison I can think of - in terms of his fearlessness about publicly broaching The Topic (namely, race, and, more specifically, Jewish power), and thus becoming vilified as "the worst of the worst," is David Duke, but he is mild-mannered and circumspect, which Nick Fuentes most certainly is not.
Fuentes is, of course, long-since banned from YouTube, yet content about "the latest thing Fuentes said on his Rumble show" is pulling in millions of views daily. Recent example: a Black (gay?) 'conservative influencer' type commenting on Fuentes' rant about how "everyone is sick of Black people," and wholeheartedly agreeing:
Whatever about finding success in the post-2016 Culture War polemics by being... highly polemical - an easy winning formula we've seen LOTS of influencers do... the turning point for Fuentes was clearly October 7th, after which his shtick about "the workings and excesses of Jewish influence in the USA and globally," including a pinpoint accurate prediction, made on or about October 7th 2023, for what Israel would do with "its 9/11," strongly resonated with a mass audience.
It's this specific niche that makes Fuentes stand out from the background Culture War, which has apparently satisfied the imperial strategy of 'divide-and-conquer', whereby we see Palestinian and LGBT flags on one side, and nationalist and Israeli flags on the other. If you're anti-immigration, you're pro-Israel, and if you're pro-Palestinian, you're 'woke'. Fuentes breaks through that 'neat' but deadly bifurcation.
The bratty "Groyper* cult leader" and "psychopathic troll rat," as Jordan Peterson called him, has largely given way to a more mature articulation of social and international issues. I say "largely" because he's still young and still prone to being provocative for provocation's sake, but he seems serious about outflanking Trump's MAGA movement with a "true America First movement."
[ *Groyper just means online follower/fan of Nick Fuentes]