GOP Political Consultant Once Wrote for Richard Spencer

Ryan Girdusky used his own name on Spencer's Alternative Right website

Last night, CNN had Ryan Girdusky, a pro-Trump political consultant, on a panel discussing Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden. At one point, fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan started to offer advice: “If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop doing —” But Girdusky cut him off, telling him that Hasan is called an antisemite more than anyone else on the panel.

“I’m a supporter of the Palestinians, so I’m used to it,” Hasan replied. Girdusky quickly replied, “Well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

CNN has since apologized for bringing Girdusky on, stating that he is banned from appearing on the network.

Girdusky, who has previously touted his friendship with JD Vance, has worked for Protect Ohio Values PAC, which helped Vance win election in 2022. But before Girdusky was so publicly in politics, he penned articles for white nationalist and Unite the Right leader Richard Spencer.

In 2010, Girdusky wrote two pieces for Spencer’s Alternative Right website; “Road Map to Nowhere” in November, and “Whiteout” in October, both under his real name. In “Whiteout,” Girdusky bemoaned the focus on suicides of gay teenagers, saying “no one cared to mention” the white middle class men who take their own lives.

Instead White, middle-class men like Frank Ricci can look forward to working hard and being denied equal treatment because of only one reason; he is a white, middle class male.  They will have the opportunity to be fired more easily than those of their female and minority counterparts.  And if they decide to stand up and take notice of their short end of the stick, they will have the opportunity to be marginalized and called “racist” by people like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, and many others who seek to remain relevant in the age of Obama.

Girdusky included an attribution link for the story about Ricci. The link went to a piece for Taki’s Magazine written by white supremacist Jared Taylor.

At the time these pieces were published, Alternative Right’s listed Peter Brimelow, the founder of the white nationalist organization VDARE, as a senior contributing editor. Paul Gottfried, a far-right academic who has helped mainstream extremist ideas, was also listed.

Richard Spencer has confirmed that the Ryan Girdusky listed on Alternative Right is the same Ryan Girdusky working in GOP politics.

In addition to his work with Protect Ohio Values PAC, Girdusky is the founder of 1776 Project PAC, which has spent the last few years working to push school boards to the right.

1776 Project PAC employs Aiden Buzzetti, who is the president of the 1776 Project Foundation. Buzzetti is also the president of Bull Moose Project, which ran the now-defunct group American Virtue. American Virtue was previously known as American Populist Union, but had to change their name after they threw a party for Hitler’s birthday (the following year, Bull Moose Project held a special event on Hitler’s birthday).

Girdusky did not respond to request for comment on this story.

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