like nick fuentes. and let s be about who nick fuentes is, someone who s really not worth our attention, but for the fact that donald trump has raised his platform. this is a guy who s said some truly reprehensible things. he kind of makes a habit out of it. i mean, i want to play a couple of examples because in the coverage of this, we end up sort of taking off or characterizing things he says. but that doesn t really do justice to how vile they are. so, i want to play this. most infamous is a disgusting riff we are going to play you. he uses a metaphor about cookie monster baking cookies to sort of just ask questions and cast doubt on the basics of the holocaust. now, you probably don t know the way that the holocaust denial works, but one of the ways that folks who are obsessed with the idea of the holocaust didn t happen, it was in fact invented by jews to claim victimhood, is all this sort of weird litigating of the math of it. so, this is an existing thing in the long and discu
tradition of holocaust denial. so, here he is calling into question whether 6 million jews were murdered during the holocaust. take a listen. it doesn t really sound correct to me, wait a second. takes one hour to make a batch of cookies and you have 15 ovens, probably in four different kitchens, right? doing 24 hours a day, every day, for five years, how long would it take you to make 6 million? i don t know, it certainly wouldn t be five years, right? the math doesn t seem to add up there. the math doesn t quite seem to add up there. i don t think you would result in 6 million. you know, that s exactly what it sounds like. fuentes has also repeatedly pushed gross, antisemitic talking conspiracy theories all the time about jewish elites controlling american society. here s another example. i don t support women s rights, i don t support lgbt rights. i believe in race and gender
comes to some of it, he probably agrees and thinks, you know, that s what s good about those people or something like that. i mean, i think the more alarming thing really is the idea that, you know, these guys are hoping, as they were with unite the right rally, he negative polarization to elevate their own ideas and to force mainstream republicans to defend them because they know that they will defend whatever trump does. and so, they want to put themselves in a position where in order to defend trump, you have to defend holocaust denial or white supremacists, explicit white supremacy, this kind of stuff. and that s, i think, that can be very dangerous in the politics that s as polarized as ours are now. that is such a good point. that s exactly, exactly it adam serwer, thank you so much. still to come after president biden asked congress to prevent a railroad strike, senator bernie sanders says, he plans to block anything that doesn t give the workers the sick days they are demandi