Screengrab of Piers Morgan’s interview with Nick Fuentes on Uncensored.

The fascist types are frequently called hysterical. No matter how their attitude is arrived at, their hysterical behavior fulfills a certain function. Though they actually resemble their listeners in most respects, they differ from them in an important one: they know no inhibitions in expressing themselves. They function vicariously for their inarticulate listeners by doing and saying what the latter would like to, but either cannot or dare not. They violate the taboos which middle-class society has put upon any expressive behavior on the part of the normal, matter-of-fact-citizen. One may say that some of the effect of fascist propaganda is achieved by this breakthrough. The fascist agitators are taken seriously because they risk making fools of themselves… Hitler was liked, not in spite of his cheap antics, but just because of them, because of his false tones and his clowning.

– Theodor Adorno

Nick Fuentes is very funny. The other night he continually cracked jokes and mugged for the camera while running circles around a befuddled and overmatched Piers Morgan. Watching the interview brought to mind the 2016 GOP primary debates, in which Trump mauled traditional politicians such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who could only feebly respond with an anachronistic political vocabulary and the dated optics of “decency” and “maturity.” Perhaps Morgan thought it was the 1980s and he was Jerry Springer or Geraldo, and that, like them, he could browbeat........

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