White nationalists gather with GOP officials [View all]

[douglas9]

[Feb 25, 2022: Orlando, FL] On Friday night, around 1,000 Christian white nationalists and neo-Nazis gathered in the Cypress Ballroom at the Marriott Orlando World Center for the America First Political Action Conference. Just hours before, down the road at The Rosen Shingle Creek, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference was finishing up its second day.

For the last couple of years, white nationalist Nick Fuentes has been gathering his flock, known collectively as ‘the groypers’, at hotel convention spaces parallel to the slightly less extreme CPAC. This year, to be protected from activists and journalists the location of the America First PAC was only given out hours before the starting time.

Fuentes has been de-platformed financially by credit card processors and I was told by one attendee (who also was at CPAC) that he had to pay for his ticket via money order or ACH (I was not able to confirm this). Most groypers are in their early 20s and he seemed very confused by what they were.

Every year since the start of AFPAC, groypers attend CPAC. Usually, Nick Fuentes makes an attempt to appear, getting quickly booted by the organizers. This year he did not bother attending, but many of the groypers were present.


https://www.gregpalast.com/members-of-congress-elected-officials-speak-at-white-nationalist-conference/