Nick Fuentes announced that he plans to stop Vivek Ramaswamy from becoming the governor of Ohio. The announcement arrived with the kind of confidence that only exists when someone mistakes online attention for real-world standing.

I’m writing about it anyway, not because Nick Fuentes deserves the attention, but because ignoring it won’t make it disappear. And because this won’t give him one extra syllable of relevance.

Fuentes’ plan revolves around disengagement, largely motivated by his rejection of Ramaswamy on racial grounds. The grievance-addicted man-child is telling people to vote Democrat, third party, or not show up at all to vote.

The self-professed white nationalist, 27, told his twisted followers they need to “deny Vivek Ramaswamy the governorship,” calling next year’s Ohio election “the only race” he cares about, for blatantly racist reasons.

“This anchor baby cannot become the governor of Ohio, I don’t care if it’s a Jewish woman who wins,” the notorious antisemite and Holocaust denier said on a recent podcast, referencing leading Democratic candidate Amy Acton.

“What kind of message would that send? That sends a message that you can say and do anything to white people — they’ll tolerate any level of disrespect,” he said. – New York Post

Fuentes isn’t proposing a way to win or even compete. Of course he isn’t, that’s not what he’s about. It’s hard to see his pitiful attempt as anything other than a boy grasping for clicks.

Ramaswamy has a campaign. Fuentes has opinions about it. Stop the presses. Here’s Fuentes responding after JD Vance told him to eat it for attacking Vance’s wife with racist garbage.

Nick Fuentes reacts to JD Vance telling him to “eat shit!”

“It’s honestly so flattering that the vice-president would invite me to join his family in a traditional Indian dinner!” pic.twitter.com/BMK0rx4ol6

— Fuentes Updates (@FuentesUpdates) December 24, 2025

Fuentes’ parents must be proud.

At this point, pretending there’s anything new or interesting about Nick Fuentes would be dishonest. The racism isn’t a slip. It’s the entire personality. When attention dips, he reaches for it on instinct, because ugliness is the only thing he has ever been able to reliably produce.

There’s nothing brave about this. Fuentes practices the laziest form of extremism available — the kind that lives online, borrows other people’s platforms, throws verbal garbage, waits for a response, and then mistakes backlash for relevance. It’s provocation as a substitute for thought.

What makes Fuentes especially hollow is how little effort he puts into any of it. The insults are stale. His obsessions are predictable. The worldview never develops past adolescent grievance. His schtick for clicks is easier than growth, and resentment requires less discipline than competence.

In this clip, Nick spirals through a rambling attack on Donald Trump, insisting Trump has no plan, no swagger, and no credibility left. The irony is rich. A man yelling from the cheap seats is furious that a sitting president didn’t clear his governing agenda with him first.

And that’s really the point. Fuentes isn’t trying to shape politics, any politics, Ohio politics. He’s based in Illinois. He’s attempting to insert himself into a race that will move forward whether he comments on it or not. His fixation with Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t evidence of influence. It’s just racism looking for an audience.

Fuentes isn’t trying to shape politics or win Ohio. Elections don’t interest him, and neither does persuasion. What does interest him is attaching himself to Vivek Ramaswamy because Ramaswamy’s success offends him on a personal, racial level.

Strip away the posturing an the motive is obvious. Fuentes is reacting to someone he believes should not exist in positions of power, and he can’t tolerate watching that happen.

This is what happens when someone knows there’s no seat at the table and no way to earn one. Flipping the table becomes the substitute, and resistance becomes the excuse. That’s not politics and it isn’t even ideology. It’s just a racist throwing a tantrum because the world refuses to organize itself around his bitterness.

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