Who Is Nick Fuentes?

My husband and I read the Wall Street Journal every morning. He augments this practice by reading the New York Times online; I do the same at BBC.com. At night we flip back and forth from FOX News to CNN to MSNBC during the prime-time news hour, hoping to hear a shred of truth somewhere.

Neither of us had ever heard of Nick Fuentes until the now-famous dinner he had at Mar-A- Lago with President Trump and Kanye West. Apparently he is a 24-year-old Holocaust denier and "white nationalist," whatever that means, and the fact that Trump dined with him means that Trump shares his beliefs, according to the mainstream media.

Two thoughts come to mind: First, for many years I had a close friend who grew up in a very rich family, had a very famous and successful father, and held a high government job with much responsibility, who repeatedly told me she had serious doubts that the Holocaust ever took place. ("Oh come on, Andrea, you don't really believe that crap, do you?")  Second, according to psychologists and other experts, the human brain is not fully formed until about the age of 30. 

If sharing a meal with someone you disagree with politically, or otherwise, makes you one of them (as if it rubs off), then I am a Holocaust-denying, sheeplike Democrat who never read a book, despises all Republicans and believes whatever I hear on CNN. Which, by the way, is not the case.