Right-wing extremist in government office

Sharing Nazi symbolism does not have to end your career in the Republican Party. Nate Hochman recently proved this. Because he shared a video with a sun wheel and marching soldiers on X, the campaign team of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and then competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, fired him in 2023. However, according to research by the New York Times, Hochman now works as deputy director of the planning staff under US Secretary of State Marco Rubio - even as his speechwriter, according to his email signature. A Department spokesman said: "Nate Hochman is a valued and important member of the Department who has worked tirelessly to implement the President's foreign policy agenda."

Hochman was early on considered a rising star of the new right in the USA and, after graduating from university in 2021, wrote for the conservative US magazine National Review, among others.

Hochman was early on considered a rising star of the new right in the USA and, after graduating from university in 2021, wrote for the conservative US magazine National Review, among others. Shortly afterwards, he debated right-wing extremist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in a Twitter conference. He particularly criticized his strategy: no elections could be won with a political project only for whites. “Perhaps it would be ideal if it were,” Hochman added. Only later did he distance himself from Fuentes.

After his expulsion from DeSantis, Hochman worked at the think tank America 2100 and a Republican senator before rising to the highest levels of US President Donald Trump's administration. However, his career is by no means unusual. Recently, a number of people with contacts to right-wing extremists received government positions, for example Paul Ingrassia, who admitted to a "Nazi leaning" and nevertheless became deputy chief advisor to the GSA administrative agency.