Groyper war, dark elves, bugmen: how the GOP ticket is reviving far-right beef

Antisemitic streamer, Holocaust denier, Charlottesville rally attendee, and January 6th instigator Nick Fuentes disavowed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last week, claiming the America First movement had been “hijacked” by “consultants, lobbyists, & donors.”

The news that Fuentes had declared a “groyper war” on his preferred presidential candidate has sparked some claims that Trump is losing support among a core part of his constituency: white supremacists. But Fuentes has long been at odds with another subset of the far-right — one that has ascended within the mainstream Republican Party in recent years, culminating in Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate.