Then last week, Politico reported on [group chats of Young Republican leaders](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146), in which participants called an internal rival a “fat stinky Jew” and made detailed jokes about how they’d send other internal rivals “to the gas chamber.” In response to a claim that one subgroup was pledging to vote for “the most right wing person,” one participant wrote back: “Great. I love Hitler.”
The group chat comments kick-started an impassioned, days-long public debate among right-wingers. The debate wasn’t really about the comments themselves, but their seeming confirmation of a trend that had long been whispered about — the increasing normalization of blatant bigotry, especially antisemitism — among the young right. “The group chat exposé,” [conservative activist James Lindsay posted on X](https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1978477971699568852), “is the tip of a very nasty iceberg.”
Critics argued that leading right-wing figures had become too willing to look the other way about antisemitic rhetoric, beliefs, and “joking-or-am-I?” Nazi sympathy.
RamonaQ-JunieB on
The biggest problem? They are shitty, immoral people and even when exposed, people rush in to defend and make excuses for their unconscionable behavior.
BlotchComics on
Raise your hand if you knew with certainty that this was a big problem for many years now.
This bullshit of pretending that it’s something new is what the media does every damn time.
Actual__Wizard on
You can see the move. The media is slowly “deleting granularity” to make two different perspectives of the law seem the same.
I want to be clear: That the “pure of of the law from the state” and the “pure view of the law from the perspective of the people” is not how the United States has ever operated. The propaganda media has “fabricated the concept of identity politics.” The concept that we’re suppose to have two political parties fighting against each other is wrong and absurd.
Austin_Peep_9396 on
This is what happens when your political party needs to collect the most radical groups in order to pull together a majority. You embolden these groups, give them a sense of normalcy and belonging. Other people that agree but were scared to speak out become more vocal. Influencers start trying to openly gaslight larger groups to collect new followers. And while this happens, the political leaders say nothing, or even support these groups because…well…they need the votes to stay in power. If they speak against these groups, they’ll drop below a majority. So the problem grows, and grows….
Verum_Orbis on
MAGA is a modern Nazi movement.
whatsupeveryone34 on
“Republicans have a major NAZI problem”…. fixed your headline for you.
usps_fan on
>In an early September article titled “The Conservative Movement at a Crossroads,” right-wing activist Christopher Rufo wrote that three once-fringe ideas — “**racialism, anti-Semitism, and conspiracism**” — now “appear to be entering some corners of mainstream conservatism.” Young GOP staffers, Rufo continued, had told him that all three “**have gained a foothold among their Gen Z colleagues in Washington**.” Others on the right have made similar remarks.
>Part of this is because a culture developed among young right-wingers in which **saying extreme and offensive things makes you cool**.
More juvenile behavior plunging us into fascism.
LangyMD on
Not policing their own is both how they got as much power as they currently have and why they are as awful as they currently are. Hopefully what is new is them realizing that giving so much power over to conspiracies, racists, etc is more dangerous than it’s worth.
But I expect many of them still think anything, including the eternal damnation of their own souls, is worth ensuring liberals are unhappy.
cwk415 on
Points to a bigger problem? People wake up! Nazim isn’t the “future” of the GOP – it is the current state of the GOP. It’s happening NOW.
steve_ample on
Uh, yeah. Cultures don’t develop overnight. It’s these kids simply coming out of the closet, and it’s the rot of the moral scaffolding that was the bulwark against this type of thought leadership that made it possible.
If you want soma a-ha moments, consider events like:
*After the losses of McCain (Palin) and Romney, the campaign autopsies each time said drop the antagonism towards women and Latinos
*Tolerated extremist candidates like Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, and the rest of the tea party lot like Bachmann, Farenthold, Gohmert.
*Tolerated the McConnell plan to block everything Obama
*tolerated racial dogwhistling if not bullhorning like Palin and George Allen of “real americans”
These kids are the most recent symptomatic manifestations of a chronic condition that they refused to address.
Emotional-Channel-42 on
This is how every single conservative thinks and talks whether it’s behind closed doors, in a group chat, or in their mind. Anyone who says otherwise is not awake. Many of us grew up in these environments. This is who they are
brickout on
We’ve known since the 80s. Fuck the media.
Opposite-Bit6660 on
The bigger problem here is that we will be expected to raise our kids to act and think the same way to feed the ICE pipeline.
T1Pimp on
This has been the case with Republicans/Christian conservatives for as long as I’ve been voting.. and I’m old.
LimpDisc on
“Some Very Fine People on Both Sides”
That quote and he still won the popular vote for a second term. Too many people are perfectly okay with those views or they don’t see those views as a line in the sand. That’s the scary part.
Diligent-Coconut-309 on
Yeah they’ll be Generals, Senators, etc., it comes to a point that you realize these people are promoted to the top in this great nation..
Tobybrent on
The South lost the war but played a long game and won the peace
Randy_Watson on
The GOP has transformed from a “conservative” political party to a hate group, but it didn’t happen overnight and without the consent of those who remain supporters of the republican party. Their primary form of politicking for decades has been demonizing others instead of actually trying to justify their policies. It’s easier to scapegoat trans people and immigrants than it is to defend massive tax giveaways to the rich. It’s easier to claim your opponents are terrorists and evil than it is to defend a crackdown on constitutional rights and stripping people of healthcare coverage.
What did people expect to happen? When the only move you have is hate and greed, is it surprising that your young supporters are driven by hate and greed?
SilentRunning on
Only problem here is that the Older Republicans created a bunch of young NAZI youth.
Nima-night on
There grown ups
Yabreath_isSmelly on
Wow, I had no idea America has a problem with nationalistic, racist, hateful ideologies!
Surely there was nothing in our history that could have shown this
s/
thecamino on
The reaction by “leadership” signals a problem of the same or larger proportion.
Darrkman2 on
I’m sorry but as a Black man the fact that there’s an article about racism in the Republican party like it’s some new shocking thing is hilarious to me.
The party of the Southern strategy , welfare queens and the war on (some) drugs might be racist and antisemitic?!?!
THIS IS SHOCKING!!!
CrimsonHeretic on
This just goes to show that the problems don’t all go away once Trump is eventually out of the picture. The protests and messaging need to be about more than the fat orange turd. It should be about the entire Republican party full of racist, fascist domestic terrorists who protect pedophiles and rapists.
RazorLou on
Is the bigger problem that the president of the United States is a psychotic at best?
sixtus_clegane119 on
Why do they keep being called Young, the youngest was 24.
wavelines on
The other disturbing trend that has come from this is the amount of folks who identify as Right-wing saying “I don’t care” in response to this. Usually associated with pictures of victims of whatever crime the are using as a rally point.
It’s possible to care about those issues as well as denounce Nazis. It’s generally not a hard thing to do.
3006mv on
The leaked Nazi youth group chat points toward a bigger problem.
romanadvoratrelundar on
The least surprising thing for me is that I’ve probably asked 100 MAGA over the past week “do you denounce this rhetoric inside your own party?” & literally zero have. Some have agreed with them, others just deflect, ignore, or block.
thepartypantser on
Married to a minority I see how subtlety racist people are towards her.
However when I am around some people who don’t know my wife, the mask is occasionally dropped and you truly see how bad it is.
They are almost always right wing. The same folks that tell me that racism is not a problem anymore.
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For well over a year, some [conservative elites](https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-869858) have [quietly worried](https://www.city-journal.org/article/conservatives-trump-anti-semitism-conspiracism-racialism) about the trends they were seeing among influencers and young rightists who seem increasingly enamored of conspiracy theories involving Jews — the latest of which involves the [death of Charlie Kirk](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/charlie-kirk-conspiracies-rightwing-podcasters).
Then last week, Politico reported on [group chats of Young Republican leaders](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146), in which participants called an internal rival a “fat stinky Jew” and made detailed jokes about how they’d send other internal rivals “to the gas chamber.” In response to a claim that one subgroup was pledging to vote for “the most right wing person,” one participant wrote back: “Great. I love Hitler.”
The group chat comments kick-started an impassioned, days-long public debate among right-wingers. The debate wasn’t really about the comments themselves, but their seeming confirmation of a trend that had long been whispered about — the increasing normalization of blatant bigotry, especially antisemitism — among the young right. “The group chat exposé,” [conservative activist James Lindsay posted on X](https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1978477971699568852), “is the tip of a very nasty iceberg.”
Critics argued that leading right-wing figures had become too willing to look the other way about antisemitic rhetoric, beliefs, and “joking-or-am-I?” Nazi sympathy.
The biggest problem? They are shitty, immoral people and even when exposed, people rush in to defend and make excuses for their unconscionable behavior.
Raise your hand if you knew with certainty that this was a big problem for many years now.
This bullshit of pretending that it’s something new is what the media does every damn time.
You can see the move. The media is slowly “deleting granularity” to make two different perspectives of the law seem the same.
I want to be clear: That the “pure of of the law from the state” and the “pure view of the law from the perspective of the people” is not how the United States has ever operated. The propaganda media has “fabricated the concept of identity politics.” The concept that we’re suppose to have two political parties fighting against each other is wrong and absurd.
This is what happens when your political party needs to collect the most radical groups in order to pull together a majority. You embolden these groups, give them a sense of normalcy and belonging. Other people that agree but were scared to speak out become more vocal. Influencers start trying to openly gaslight larger groups to collect new followers. And while this happens, the political leaders say nothing, or even support these groups because…well…they need the votes to stay in power. If they speak against these groups, they’ll drop below a majority. So the problem grows, and grows….
MAGA is a modern Nazi movement.
“Republicans have a major NAZI problem”…. fixed your headline for you.
>In an early September article titled “The Conservative Movement at a Crossroads,” right-wing activist Christopher Rufo wrote that three once-fringe ideas — “**racialism, anti-Semitism, and conspiracism**” — now “appear to be entering some corners of mainstream conservatism.” Young GOP staffers, Rufo continued, had told him that all three “**have gained a foothold among their Gen Z colleagues in Washington**.” Others on the right have made similar remarks.
>Part of this is because a culture developed among young right-wingers in which **saying extreme and offensive things makes you cool**.
More juvenile behavior plunging us into fascism.
Not policing their own is both how they got as much power as they currently have and why they are as awful as they currently are. Hopefully what is new is them realizing that giving so much power over to conspiracies, racists, etc is more dangerous than it’s worth.
But I expect many of them still think anything, including the eternal damnation of their own souls, is worth ensuring liberals are unhappy.
Points to a bigger problem? People wake up! Nazim isn’t the “future” of the GOP – it is the current state of the GOP. It’s happening NOW.
Uh, yeah. Cultures don’t develop overnight. It’s these kids simply coming out of the closet, and it’s the rot of the moral scaffolding that was the bulwark against this type of thought leadership that made it possible.
If you want soma a-ha moments, consider events like:
*After the losses of McCain (Palin) and Romney, the campaign autopsies each time said drop the antagonism towards women and Latinos
*Tolerated extremist candidates like Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, and the rest of the tea party lot like Bachmann, Farenthold, Gohmert.
*Tolerated the McConnell plan to block everything Obama
*tolerated racial dogwhistling if not bullhorning like Palin and George Allen of “real americans”
These kids are the most recent symptomatic manifestations of a chronic condition that they refused to address.
This is how every single conservative thinks and talks whether it’s behind closed doors, in a group chat, or in their mind. Anyone who says otherwise is not awake. Many of us grew up in these environments. This is who they are
We’ve known since the 80s. Fuck the media.
The bigger problem here is that we will be expected to raise our kids to act and think the same way to feed the ICE pipeline.
This has been the case with Republicans/Christian conservatives for as long as I’ve been voting.. and I’m old.
“Some Very Fine People on Both Sides”
That quote and he still won the popular vote for a second term. Too many people are perfectly okay with those views or they don’t see those views as a line in the sand. That’s the scary part.
Yeah they’ll be Generals, Senators, etc., it comes to a point that you realize these people are promoted to the top in this great nation..
The South lost the war but played a long game and won the peace
The GOP has transformed from a “conservative” political party to a hate group, but it didn’t happen overnight and without the consent of those who remain supporters of the republican party. Their primary form of politicking for decades has been demonizing others instead of actually trying to justify their policies. It’s easier to scapegoat trans people and immigrants than it is to defend massive tax giveaways to the rich. It’s easier to claim your opponents are terrorists and evil than it is to defend a crackdown on constitutional rights and stripping people of healthcare coverage.
What did people expect to happen? When the only move you have is hate and greed, is it surprising that your young supporters are driven by hate and greed?
Only problem here is that the Older Republicans created a bunch of young NAZI youth.
There grown ups
Wow, I had no idea America has a problem with nationalistic, racist, hateful ideologies!
Surely there was nothing in our history that could have shown this
s/
The reaction by “leadership” signals a problem of the same or larger proportion.
I’m sorry but as a Black man the fact that there’s an article about racism in the Republican party like it’s some new shocking thing is hilarious to me.
The party of the Southern strategy , welfare queens and the war on (some) drugs might be racist and antisemitic?!?!
THIS IS SHOCKING!!!
This just goes to show that the problems don’t all go away once Trump is eventually out of the picture. The protests and messaging need to be about more than the fat orange turd. It should be about the entire Republican party full of racist, fascist domestic terrorists who protect pedophiles and rapists.
Is the bigger problem that the president of the United States is a psychotic at best?
Why do they keep being called Young, the youngest was 24.
The other disturbing trend that has come from this is the amount of folks who identify as Right-wing saying “I don’t care” in response to this. Usually associated with pictures of victims of whatever crime the are using as a rally point.
It’s possible to care about those issues as well as denounce Nazis. It’s generally not a hard thing to do.
The leaked Nazi youth group chat points toward a bigger problem.
The least surprising thing for me is that I’ve probably asked 100 MAGA over the past week “do you denounce this rhetoric inside your own party?” & literally zero have. Some have agreed with them, others just deflect, ignore, or block.
Married to a minority I see how subtlety racist people are towards her.
However when I am around some people who don’t know my wife, the mask is occasionally dropped and you truly see how bad it is.
They are almost always right wing. The same folks that tell me that racism is not a problem anymore.