A recent viral clip has ignited fierce debate online, not from some obscure fringe channel, but from one of the most recognisable faces in gaming livestreaming: Asmongold. In the video, the Twitch and YouTube streamer is seen reacting approvingly to far-right commentator Nick Fuentes, who argues that America needs to “crush the other side” to preserve order.
What follows is not satire. It is an unfiltered glimpse of how extremist rhetoric has seeped into mainstream internet spaces, and how one of the platform’s biggest entertainers appears to openly fantasise about a textbook fascist regime.
The Clip: When Reaction Turns to Endorsement
The clip begins with Fuentes’s now-familiar authoritarian refrain:
“This is controversial, but they have to crush the other side.”
Instead of pushing back, Asmongold leans in– not as a critic, but as a participant. He enthusiastically expands on Fuentes’s proposal, detailing how such a crackdown should look in practice:
Asmongold agrees with Nick and explains how he would handle ICE protestors:
— 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 (@Antunes1) October 29, 2025
"That's right. Put the mayors in jail. Put the governors on the Insurrection Act. Put them in prison labor camps. Authorize the police to respond with violence. Put them in Guantanamo Bay. Crush them.” pic.twitter.com/c4ftee99NJ
“Destroy everything about them. Put the mayors in jail. Put the governors up on the insurrection act for sedition. Put them in mandatory prison labour camps… Bring in the military if you need to.”
At one point, he adds with chilling conviction:
“Charge them with incitement for terrorism. Put them in Guantanamo Bay. I’m talking about scorched-earth, Old Testament. Get them the f*** out.”
When his own chat responds, “So basically the republic is dead,” Asmongold cuts in- defending the dystopian vision:
“No, the republic is alive. An election was held, and the will of the people is being upheld. It’s not authoritarianism- it’s called the law.”
A Blueprint for Fascism, Not Law and Order
Political theorists would recognise this immediately. What Asmongold outlines mirrors the three foundational principles of classical fascism:
- Total annihilation of opposition.
He advocates imprisoning elected officials and protesters en masse, eliminating dissent rather than engaging it. - Militarisation of domestic life.
The suggestion to deploy the National Guard or military internally collapses the boundary between civil governance and martial control. - Moral justification through legality.
“It’s not authoritarianism, it’s the law,” he insists, echoing the logic of regimes that weaponise law to destroy liberty.
This rhetorical trick, using “law and order” to justify authoritarian power, is central to every fascist project, from Mussolini’s Italy to Pinochet’s Chile. The premise is always the same: once the opposition is declared “unlawful,” repression becomes a moral duty.
The Constitutional Contradiction
What Asmongold promotes directly violates multiple pillars of the U.S. Constitution:
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, assembly, and political protest, rights he dismisses as acts of sedition.
- The Posse Comitatus Act (1878) bars federal military forces from policing American civilians, a line he explicitly erases.
- The Fourteenth Amendment’s due-process clause forbids detention or punishment without trial, yet his fantasy normalises prison camps and Guantanamo-style extrajudicial punishment.
His so-called “law” is, in every legal sense, the end of law itself. It imagines a state where the government is both judge and executioner, and where obedience, not liberty, defines citizenship.
The Broader Cultural Shift
This clip is not just about one streamer’s moment of zealotry. It illustrates how mainstream digital spaces have become incubators for authoritarian ideas, often under the guise of “just reacting.”
Fuentes’s rhetoric has long been linked to white nationalist and fascist movements. What is striking is how easily a pop-culture figure like Asmongold, with millions of followers across platforms, can repeat those views, uncritically and even enthusiastically, before an impressionable audience.
When political violence becomes content, democracy itself becomes optional entertainment.
Why It’s Dangerous
In an age where influencers shape public opinion more than traditional media, Asmongold’s endorsement of state violence cannot be brushed off as “just a rant.” He effectively frames authoritarian repression as patriotic responsibility, telling his viewers that mass arrests and censorship are necessary acts of national salvation.
That message, that freedom must be suspended to save the nation, is the oldest and most seductive lie in the history of tyranny.
A Warning For Things To Come
Asmongold’s reaction to Nick Fuentes is more than reckless commentary. It is a disturbing ideological alignment with authoritarian thought, a blueprint for fascism masquerading as realism. His imagined America, where dissenters are jailed and soldiers patrol city streets, would annihilate every constitutional freedom that defines the Republic.
The First Amendment protects his right to say it. But it also obliges the public to recognise what it is: not free speech, but a fantasy of fascism, incompatible with the very Constitution he claims to defend.
