Groyper Army

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The '''Groyper Army''', or '''Groypers''', are a loosely organised group of [[far-right]] [[troll]]s who follow [[Nick Fuentes]] (the de facto leader of the group) and his America First movement,<ref name=adl>[https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/groyper-army Groyper Army] ''ADL''.</ref> which should not be confused with the {{wpl|America First Party (1943)|American fascist party}} of the same name, the second {{wpl|Populist Party (United States, 1984)|attempt at that party}} by [[David Duke]], or with [[Donald Trump]]'s own wider {{wpl|America First (policy)|America First}} movement, despite all of them having similar [[ideologies]].

After the term "[[Alt-right]]" became widely known in the media, its supporters started being [[no platform|deplatformed]] and exposed as the [[neo-Nazi]] [[racists]] they are. Eventually, even most mainstream paleoconservatives had gotten fed up with the alt-right, but rather than changing their beliefs and becoming better people, they decided to rebrand the movement instead.

The result of the rebranding is that during the late 2010s to the early 2020s, social conservatives, [[fascism|fascists]], [[theocracy|theocrats]], and other [[fringe]] [[right-wing]] ideologues came together under the America First banner to support [[MAGA]] and 'post-racist' content on the interwebs. This became known as the Groyper Army, calling themselves [[paleoconservative]]s and swearing that they weren't alt-right; they quickly started to openly support every single alt-right [[talking point]] just as they did before.

==Ideology==
Since [[groyper]]s are not a uniform ideological group but, rather, a combination of various kinds of [[Far right|right-wing extremists]], there is no absolute set [[ideology]] to the movement. There are, however, shared ideals that all groypers agree with and call paleoconservatism, despite the fact that it bears very little resemblance to what was traditionally known as [[paleoconservatism]] in [[political science]], instead closely resembling a kind of modern fascism (though it basically is fascism at this point).

===Core beliefs===
*'''[[Authoritarianism]]''' - Because the groypers are a neo-nazi gang, one of their beliefs is support for an authoritarian state in favor of their movement and similar movements. Fuentes himself has come out in support of a violent theocratic ethnocratic dictatorship to be installed, and with the Republican Party at the helm.<ref>[https://medium.com/my-side-of-the-aisle/neo-nazi-nick-fuentes-wants-a-fascist-dictatorship-many-republicans-share-his-views-34549501457e Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes Wants A Fascist Dictatorship, Many Republicans Share His Views] Medium</ref>
*'''[[Antisemitism]]''' – One of the most notable groyper beliefs is antisemitism.<ref name=adl/> As with all things that groypers believe, this is hidden under layers of obfuscation to make it plausible to deny that they are neo-Nazis or alt-right because open neo-Nazis and alt-righters get banned from all the legitimate social media platforms. The groyper will, instead of openly calling for a second Holocaust, use not-so-subtle references to antisemitic tropes such as posting "[[Le Happy Merchant|merchant]]" [[memes]], joking about the [[Holocaust]] and even [[holocaust denial|denying the Holocaust even happened]], bringing up [[conspiracy theories]] such as the Dancing Israelis, [[USS Liberty incident]], or [[Alt-right glossary#Jew media|Jewish influences over the media]] and [[Zionist Occupation Government|US government]]. In public, rather than explicitly calling for [[Jews]] to be deported or exterminated, they provide more acceptable ideas like cutting US aid and support for [[Israel]], banning Israeli [[lobby]] groups from the US, and other things that can be technically termed [[anti-Zionism]]. In private, they take a more hardline approach, noting that this is only the first step towards solving the [[Jewish Question]].
*'''[[Islamophobia]]''' – The groypers are hostile to the existence of [[Islam]] itself, often coming up with and citing anti-Islamic conspiracies.
*'''Soft theocracy''' – While groypers are not explicitly [[theocrat]]s, they tend to promote many of the same ideas. They generally assert that the US is a white [[The United States as a Christian nation|Christian nation]] and strongly oppose any legal or political force which is deemed to erode [[Traditional values|traditional Christian values]], including [[Women's suffrage|women's rights to vote]], most [[civil rights]], [[atheism]], [[gay rights]], and more.<ref name=adl/>
*'''[[Isolationism]]''' – According to the groypers, the US would do better to cease all involvement in international [[war]]s and trade and, instead, to focus on American industry and invading [[Mexico]] to kill those pesky [[illegal immigrant]]s. This isolationist stance is why groypers accuse anyone on the right who disagrees with them of being a [[neoconservative]], because they claim neocons are responsible for the [[moral]] decline of the American right wing. Groypers don't appear to be gifted with much cognitive ability, so the problems with their extreme isolationist stance, such as the effect on the American [[economy]] if it stopped almost all world trade, are completely ignored.
*'''[[Homophobia]]''' – Groypers are universally homophobic and, of course, [[transphobia|transphobic]]. It's normal to see groypers promoting [[conversion therapy]] as a "treatment" for [[homosexuality]] despite the fact that it doesn't work and is actually harmful. Failing this, they support [[capital punishment]] or imprisonment for anyone who actually engages in [[sodomy]], because their morality is stuck in the 9<sup>th</sup> century and this is somehow a good idea to them for some reason. When faced with resistance to their homophobic views, the groyper will post [[Bible]] verses and [[Cherry picking|cherry-picked]] [[pseudoscience]] that condemns homosexuality as harmful and immoral.
*'''Ban immigration''' – Yes, that's right, the Groyper Army believes that immigration into the US should be banned. '''All of it.''' They sometimes go as far as to propose that people who legally immigrated already should be deported, unless they are white [[Christians]], of course. The reasons for banning all immigration are mostly because they believe that immigration is responsible for the decline of [[Western civilisation]] via demographic shift. This is because the new alt-right believes in the [[Great Replacement]] conspiracy theory with no hint of [[irony]] or criticism.

==Dispute with TPUSA==
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Since groypers are extremists, being fascists rather than typical conservatives, they inevitably came into conflict with the more mainstream conservative groups and figures.<ref name=adl/> This conflict generally takes the form of groypers infiltrating conservative groups and accusing anyone who isn't extreme enough of being a "fake conservative" or "neocon" as an insult while promoting their own views, instead, as a form of [[Alt-right glossary#Red pill|radicalisation to turn people further right]].

This tactic eventually resulted in a higher-profile dispute between mainstream conservative pundit [[Charlie Kirk]] of Turning Point USA and Groyper Army leader [[Nick Fuentes]] in which Fuentes characteristically called Kirk a fake conservative and promoted extreme views until he got banned from [[YouTube]] and [[deplatform]]ed himself. Oops.

Following Nick Fuentes being partially deplatformed, some of his Groyper Army distanced themselves from him, starting to simply refer to themselves as paleoconservatives rather than as groypers explicitly.

==Prominent members==
*Patrick Casey, leading figure of the Groyper Army and head of the [[white nationalist]] [[American Identity Movement]]<ref name=adl/>
*Jacob (Jake) Lloyd, a former contributor to [[Infowars]]<ref name=adl/>
*Christian Secor — charged for civic disorder, "assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers" and other crimes at the [[2021 U.S. Capitol riot]]<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/opa/investigations-regarding-violence-capitol Investigations regarding violence at the Capitol]. United States Department of Justice.</ref>

==Brigading==
In any youtube video discussing Fuentes and how stupid and terrible of a person he is, the Groypers aren't far behind brigading the comment section and to glaze their cult leader and spam how much they love him, giving no legitimate points to counter criticism.

==See also==
*[[Nick Fuentes]] - their leader

==References==
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