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It is, ironically, Fuentes who may lose from this situation. His appeal rested on offering something his competitors would not. But if mainstream Republican figures like Tucker Carlson now provide similar racial provocations without the overt white nationalist baggage, what distinguishes Fuentes from the rest of the pack?…. The Right’s supposed working-class economics amounts to conspiracy-driven populism, since it has no intention of dealing with the actual sources of inequality.