Nate Hochman, Marco Rubio’s chief speechwriter and deputy director of policy planning at the State Department, describes himself as “a culture warrior first and foremost.”
And Hochman has the scars to prove it. Fresh out of college, he’d hopped on a Twitter Spaces call with Nick Fuentes, America’s favorite Holocaust-denying white nationalist. When Fuentes explained that women shouldn’t have authority over men, Hochman saluted: “When the man’s right, he’s right.”
Not a good look for the conservative Fund for American Studies, which yanked Hochman’s journalism fellowship.
But you can’t keep a good soldier down. Within a year, Hochman reenlisted with America 2100, a think tank linked to Marco Rubio. Hochman’s mission was Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small town, like Springfield, Ohio, that had become a MAGA obsession. Hochman ignored the borough manager who opined that Haitians “have been a benefit to the town” and trained his camera on a greying white guy who complained that Haitians overwhelmed the sewer system. Hochman crowed that the area now “smells like human feces. Awesome.” But wouldn’t you know it, Fake News Guardian besmirched Hochman’s keen olfactory sensibilities as spreading “anti-immigrant panic.”
His next stop was Capitol Hill, where Hochman served as a policy adviser to Sen. Eric Schmitt, a fellow fan of ethnonationalist talking points.
Then, as a speechwriter for Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign, Hochman was among the first to share a video emblazoned with DeSantis’s face on a Sonnenrad, the Nazi black sun. Fake News Axios reported Hochman made the content himself. Not so, he insists.
But not good PR for DeSantis, who canned him. Ah, 2023, when a Nazi meme could still cost a guy his job.
But when Trump was reelected, Hochman joined the State Department, where he literally puts words in the mouth of Secretary of State Little Marco. Standing on the hill in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of democracy, Rubio warned that threats to the West are “every bit as real as they were during antiquity.” Open borders, global bureaucracies, “radical mullahs” and a Europe that needs to “awaken from its long slumber.” The West, it seems, is under siege.
Nate Hochman says so.
