An exposé in Politico has drawn attention to young Republicans making some incredibly unseemly comments:
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months
https://t.co/yvz8Jwbrmf
— POLITICO (@politico) October 14, 2025
Running the gambit from gross to genocidal, the leaked messages show that young Republicans aren’t much different to the Republicans of 1925.
Young Americans
Although they refer to themselves as ‘young’, these people range from 18 to 40. This is probably fair enough, however, given that the sitting Republican president is 79.
As you can see below, a lot of the messages are seemingly ironic, using a similar tone to message boards like 4chan or 8chan:
While ‘irony’ has long been used to excuse this sort of talk, it’s beyond apparent that these people want a world which matches their rhetoric.
It’s not for nothing that these youngsters support a president who is black bagging citizens and banishing them to an El Salvadorian torture facility; a president who is clamping down on free speech and freedom of expression; a president who let Israel conduct a genocide for months before growing tired of the blowback and bringing Netanyahu to heel.
Speaking on this same point, Politico interviewed Joe Feagin, a sociology professor who’s studied racism for the past 60 years. This is what he had to say:
The more the political atmosphere is open and liberating — like it has been with the emergence of Trump and a more right wing GOP even before him — it opens up young people and older people to telling racist jokes, making racist commentaries in private and public.
It’s chilling, of course, because they will act on these views.
Others have commented on the story too:
This is William Hendrix, Vice Chair of the Kansas Young Republicans and former staffer to Attorney General Kris Kobach. A new Politico report reveals that he used the N-word and homophobic slurs in a Republican group chat.
RETWEET to let Kansas know what @WilliamJHendrix said! pic.twitter.com/QJhlQxvS6h
— Protect Kamala Harris
(@DisavowTrump20) October 14, 2025
Here is @MikeJohnson taking selfies with Bobby Walker….the one that texted “rape is epic” in the Young Republicans group chat pic.twitter.com/c3k5a5Crw6
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 15, 2025
The “bad apples” defense just got incinerated.
New York Gov. Hochul SLAMS the young Republicans behind the leaked group chat fantasizing about gas chambers and rape:
“These are the future of the Republican Party… Kick them out. This bullshit has to stop.” pic.twitter.com/bSVyuvqMiw
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) October 15, 2025
Peter Giunta, Chairman of the New York State Young Republicans.
Just putting it out there. pic.twitter.com/OB6Z2LV7ax
— Rogue POTUS Staff (@RoguePOTUSStaff) October 15, 2025
A fish rots from the head
It’s not surprising that Young Republicans would have opinions from the 1930s when this is their leader:
A Politico analysis of more than 20 of Trump’s rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them. A shocking supercut of a racist bigot running for President: pic.twitter.com/tytlscU1Xb
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 12, 2024
Trump ignores a question from a female reporter but says, “I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you, darling.”pic.twitter.com/OjXO7spkeg
— Molly Ploofkins (@Mollyploofkins) October 14, 2025
While America gagged at the content of these chat logs, vice president JD Vance engaged in a bit of ‘whataboutism’:
According to JD Vance, it’s not REALLY “political violence” when your party’s Young Republican base fantasizes about building gas chambers, praises Hitler, and calls for the mass murder and mass rape of your political opponents. https://t.co/2ZpqTtbOcV pic.twitter.com/N1YTWZwDJc
— Benjamin Ze’ev
(@ArchaeoBenjamin) October 15, 2025
While the message Vance highlights is pretty bad, it’s hard to argue it’s worse than ‘I love Hitler’.
You know – unless you also feel some sort of way about Hitler.
This would make sense, I guess, given that Vance once compared Trump to Hitler, and now he’s the president’s yappiest lapdog.
Vance has gone from calling Trump “Hitler” to defending people who say they “love Hitler”.
Shameful stuff – and so dangerous to those of us who aren’t white, including his own kids. https://t.co/Uk7psuxlmD
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 15, 2025
Although Vance has struggled to diminish the repulsiveness of these messages, he has made one thing clear; it’s not just the young Republicans who are comfortable with this sort of thing.
Featured image via Politico
By Willem Moore
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It’s hard to see the impact of this kind of thing, but even if the regime doesn’t condemn it this still makes them weaker and makes them lose more followers. Every day I see more and more republican voters realizing they got fucked over and got bamboozled and that the regime is blatantly racist and bigoted. And I don’t mean the terminally online people like those on Reddit and Twitter, I mean the regular everyday people that don’t live on the internet. Places like r/conservative on Reddit make it seem like every republican is a racist and a fascist, but that’s simply not the case in the real world and the ones online are just the vocal minority or bots (which some say bots are almost half of the internet these days). The conservative subreddit has about 1.5 million weekly visitors, and even if you take into account bots and people like me that visit them to see both perspectives, 1.5 million visitors is not even close to any kind of majority. They also only let approved people post or comment and delete anything that doesn’t align with Trump.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that, even though it’s hard to see, they are only losing followers and almost never gaining new ones. It’s like death by a thousand cuts. It’s really hard to see it when it’s happening, but if you look at the big picture it’s not going well for them at all.
That’s why they trying to lock their fascist regime in as fast as possible. Fascism was never overwhelmingly popular and always just managed to exist as a system of state due to massive campaigns of intimidation and propaganda. It’s also just plainly a shit system that self-destruct incredibly quickly. Unfortunately also with a huge loss of life.
And I don’t mean the terminally online people like those on Reddit and Twitter, I mean the regular everyday people that don’t live on the internet. Places like r/conservative on Reddit make it seem like every republican is a racist and a fascist, but that’s simply not the case in the real world and the ones online are just the vocal minority or bots
IME IRL, all Republicans are racist. A lot of them are the type to outright call black people the n-word, but some are the type to say things like “I think the current system only allows blacks to qualify for any benefits and I’m mad all my money is going to them because they don’t want to work” or “I’m not racist, but just look at home many people in prison are black; just sayin” type of people. The more indirect racists may say thing like “I’m voting republican because I think it’ll make stock market go up” when they want to sound politically correct. The “I’m not racist, but” people would have a problem with Republicans being overtly racist because they really don’t believe themselves to be racists.
And while not entirely wrong, I feel like that’s an oversimplification of a diverse group of people. In some of those deep south places you may be right in that assessment, but when you start going more out west and up north it becomes less of a core belief. I currently live in a small town up north that is very red. Racism has very rarely been an issue where I live. Sure, there are the outliers that drive around with Trump flags on their trucks and just generally behave like assholes, but even other republicans that live here find those guys obnoxious. They are pretty much all bitching about the tariffs and talking about how everything is going to shit because of them just like we are.
A lot of these people are not what the internet makes them out to be. Believe it or not, there are people out there that barely ever use the internet and pretty much never use social media. Sure they all watch Fox News, but even then they only watch it in the morning in the background as they get ready for work and shit like that. Like, most of the people in my community didn’t even know who Charlie Kirk was before he got shot and are even now completely indifferent, even the republicans.
In some of those deep south places you may be right in that assessment
I should probably mention I’m in Texas, so that’s certainly possibly the difference. Very well could be a regional thing, which could explain how some Republicans don’t think they’re part of a racist party.
I see people turning the other way. Many people are warming up to it while others are letting it fester by ignoring it. We are in danger. Things are not getting better, they are quickly getting much worse.
Hitler would have definitely thrown them in the oven.
Behold! The master race!
This happens every 20 years or so and will continue to do so until the root cause is taken seriously. Shout out to Susan Faludi for writing such a fantastic expose on fatherless boys and how they congregate.
