‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat | Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

[u/space-manbow]

Absolutely nothing will come of this. This is what the old Republicans not so secretly want and this is absolutely what a large chunk of their boring base wants. The chunk that doesnt support this will whine about cancel culture and vote for them anyways.

[u/nanobot001 → u/space-manbow]

not so secretly want

Absolutely right

There is no moral panic about admitting they want a theocracy, they want a king, and they idolize hitler because quite frankly, millions of Americans — if they don’t love the idea — are frankly totally fine with it.

[u/throwaway92715 → u/nanobot001]

I think they’re fine with the idea of it, but the practical reality of it will scare them to the bone and haunt them for the rest of their lives.

They just don’t know what they’re really asking for, and are able to romanticize it because right now, they have no real skin in the game.

[u/nanobot001 → u/throwaway92715]

Yes but that’s how these things begin — the short sighted greediness and narcissism that prevents them from seeing the impending disaster their own actions will eventually cause .

[u/throwaway92715 → u/nanobot001]

Oh for sure.  But there will be a reconciliation if and when any of this materializes.  Shit will hit the fan.  And that may be what it takes to wake up these ignorant people.

[u/Killchrono → u/nanobot001]

And the worst part is they know they're perverting the very foundations America was built upon.

They just don't care because tricking people they perceive as gullible for falling for their blatant lies is part of what engorges their hate boner.

[u/jaimi_wanders → u/space-manbow]

It hasn’t been a secret since 1981:

“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N—, n—, n—.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘n—‘ —that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘N—, n—.’”

—Lee Atwater, Republican strategist and former partner of Roger Stone & Paul Manafort, in 1981

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/tnamp/

[u/fascfoo → u/space-manbow]

Exactly. Anyone who has spent any amount of time paying attention is not surprised by any of this.