The so-called groypers — those who believe that Israel is a manipulative puppet master that pulls America’s strings to advantage itself at our expense — continue to make inroads with the male youth of the Republican Party. It’s not just an online phenomenon. At the antisemitism symposium hosted by National Review and the Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday, I noted that the College Republicans of America, an organization that has over 300 chapters nationwide, just appointed a groyper as its new political director. That a Nick Fuentes stan was tapped for the role suggests that the conspiratorial thinking about the Jewish state and its people is not confined to X.
As PragerU influencer Shabbos Kestenbaum mentioned on our panel, the anxiety about the future that is shaping groyper-esque sentiment among Gen Z — whether it’s being priced out of the real estate market or struggling to afford health care — is real. The problem is that they’re misidentifying the culprit.
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