Weren’t Nick and James Allsup friends at one point?
Not just friends but business partners. America First was originally a joint venture between the two, with Allsup being far more popular at that point. Then there was some petty drama that Nick decided to aggravate by shittalking Allsup.. That was the first of many bridges he's burned.
preservetube from his college days as a Trump supporter
preservetube from his Charlottesville footage w/commentary from a YouTuber who isn't a fan [this video is cited by the ADL in its C'ville pdf, the other one mentioning Allsup is no longer on YT]
All the press I've seen mentions Charlottesville, Identity Yevropa,
and [
local]
GOP politics; it's interesting that Fuentes is absent from an Allsup-centric search, save for
this, and that was found with the "america first media james allsup" search term.
Here they are together on their podcast. [This reminds me, he had a great radio voice. He is a credit to his race(s)**.]
[this puts JA in Nick's orbit post-IE/AIM/C'ville]
Other than 'muh feminists' being used in clickbait video titles
[of which one is just a tranny watch along from Buzzfeed as it turns out, but the others are some he'll regret at least a little as he watches his daughter's life unfold -- he'd probably get razzed from the Right for differentiating between 3rd-wave antics and o.g. feminists, and that's why he was better at optics: he could really talk some shit, and craft nuanced arguments], the only objectionable thing I've seen JA do is don a white ushanka on camera to be immortalized in an online exposé. The Alt-Right was forged in post-irony Russophile cringe and all the people who look back on their defense/deflection of Dugin* must wince every time his name is uttered, but that's it. He was better at "optics" than his contemporaries [perhaps because he is a heterosexual with wife and daughter bona fides, and always planned for it to be that way]. If I eventually learn of him doing something gross, I'll have to weigh it against all the horrible shit done by his colleagues from IE/AIM and the Groypers. The fucking state of it all.

*TRS still carries that torch

**I recall him talking about an Asian ancestor being a WWII vet on a Veterans' Day video from his Bitchute era. I'll follow up if I have time.