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To be fair, unlike Spencer, Fuentes has never called for an ethnostate. He's called for a drastic reduction of legal immigration (I don't believe he's for more immigration of white Europeans either) on top of combating illegal immigration and he's called for more racially conscious activism among white people in America and promoting policies to try and keep America majority white (like he's said that raising white birth rates should be promoted, but he's kind of vague about how, as he is with a lot of things which is one of several issues I take with Fuentes), but he hasn't called for mass expulsion or relocation of black people, or Hispanics who immigrated legally or anything like that.
Nicky certainly isn't the worst person on the alt-right, to be sure. But, as you said, he tends to engage in vagueries that expand his appeal but absolves him of presenting anything concrete.
This idea that ~'Western culture'~ didn't have massive racial barriers between culturally different flavors of white is a bad faith historical revision designed to manipulate idiots into a yearning reverence for a time that literally never existed. Anyone with a middle school education can see that I'm stating the obvious though.
To me one of the most ironic things about "white" nationalism as a concept is that it fundamentally revolves around a postmodern interpretation of "whiteness" while making LARPy overtures towards an imagined kind of traditionalism. Like you said, a more generalized kind of populist nationalism, maybe even with some elements of isolationism, would be a more realistic and coherent ostensibly conservative political position than pretending all superficially "white" Europeans and Americans are going to magically align with one another against muh evil shitskins and kikes.
As much as the alt-right critiques normie cons for dancing to the tune of the Left, the alt-right does the same thing. They've bought the postmodern leftist notion of monolithic "whiteness," and have tried to make a political movement out of it.
They also tend to miss that "American" is an identity. Maybe not a strictly racial one, but a cultural identity nonetheless. This is why Trump has enjoyed a considerable amount of success: by appealing to American nationalism that can include racial minorities while still hammering home points on immigration and economic nationalism. He won in 2016 despite alt-right spergery rather than because of it, as the media attempts to push.