Politico: Young Republicans New Hitler Youth Brigade

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.

“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.

Two members of the chat responded. (Go to the link to see the bigotry first hand.)

“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member, said.

The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.

These are the up and comers of the Republican party. Makes me wonder what the ones already high in the party say in the darkness.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Pearl clutching? Sounds like Trump's "locker room talk" defense for grabbin' them by the pussy.

The one thing about electronic communications is that it can always be seen by anyone, if someone wants them to see it.

What matters is that these incel young GOP prospects are in kind with the JD Vances and Stephen Millers out there. I.E., this isn't the GOP to be, it is the GOP now.

 

[southernhybrid]

I meant to share the linked article several days ago. it sort of fits in with this thread.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/...e_code=1.t08.in4F.4bzhviXc8NWe&smid=url-share

Americans who think that Generation Z might offer hope for a less divisive, less polarized political future should think again.

A close look at Gen Z reveals that today’s deep electoral divisions, ripping at the fabric of our politics, are likely to continue for years. That is particularly because of the role of religion, or its absence, in Gen Z, the people born from the late 1990s to the early 2010s.

About a third of Gen Z-ers are nonreligious. Thirty-eight percent never go to church — a mark of the rise of the Nones, or Americans with no religious affiliation.

But predictions that the Christian right would be moribund with Gen Z-ers have proved false. In the aftermath of Covid — and amid the longing for purpose, community and transcendence that many Gen Z-ers feel — a sizable minority of them have found their answer in conservative Christianity, fueling both a religious and a political revival among these young Americans. They bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare.

According to survey data from the Barna Group, a Christian research organization, Gen Z-ers who go to church are more frequent attendees than churchgoers from older generations. Twenty-four percent of Gen Z-ers go to church every week (a slightly higher rate than for millennials and Gen X-ers).

Many of these young Christians have turned to conservative politics — a near-seamless mix of Christian faith and the MAGA message. That mix was best demonstrated in speeches that wove political and religious themes at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk.

Some believe that they are in a spiritual war against “enemies” and that they can expect to be persecuted for their convictions from a hostile secular state or society.

This belief is closely intertwined with the idea of spiritual warfare against demonic forces, which is especially popular in charismatic churches — that is, churches that encourage the use of miraculous gifts, such as speaking in tongues and faith healing.

Young male churchgoers now outpace young female churchgoers in weekly attendance, and for the first time in modern American history, they are more religious than their female peers.

Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians have been particularly attracted to anti-institutional populism and to leaders who are strong and charismatic (in a nonreligious sense). President Trump has enjoyed extraordinarily high support from this group.

There's a bit more in the article, but I did have to wonder if most of these Gen Z males are incels. Poor babies feel they are being or will be persecuted.

 

[ZiprHead]

A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit

One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil

All over some useless YR beef

And then the GOP condemned them

Fuck these people

The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration

I wasn’t allowed to talk about “replacement theory” or any mainline immigration stances. They asked me to resign over Trump’s green card diploma mill comments

I was black listed by YR National and blocked by their account because their leader is a BLM sympathizing closet case

Everyone in this article is a patriot and everyone attacking them is a dirty, treacherous, impotent, cowardly, bundle of sticks

They all deserve to be destroyed

Snowflake.

 

[Shadowy Man]

The butthurt is strong in this one.

 

[ZiprHead]

What the heil? Swastika found in House Republican's office.

Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anyone who calls their party fascist is responsible for political violence across the country. And yet, on Wednesday, a GOP lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his office—a symbol...

www.dailykos.com

 

[Shadowy Man]

What the heil? Swastika found in House Republican's office.

Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anyone who calls their party fascist is responsible for political violence across the country. And yet, on Wednesday, a GOP lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his office—a symbol...

www.dailykos.com

At least he’s not burning a flag, right? That’d be the worse desecration.

 

[ZiprHead]

What the heil? Swastika found in House Republican's office.

Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anyone who calls their party fascist is responsible for political violence across the country. And yet, on Wednesday, a GOP lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his office—a symbol...

www.dailykos.com

At least he’s not burning a flag, right? That’d be the worse desecration.

But we shouldn't call them Nazis. That would be bad.

 

[Jarhyn]

What the heil? Swastika found in House Republican's office.

Republican lawmakers have been screaming for weeks that anyone who calls their party fascist is responsible for political violence across the country. And yet, on Wednesday, a GOP lawmaker from Ohio was caught with a swastika in his office—a symbol...

www.dailykos.com

Like, can we say it now? This is Nazis all over again.

There's no covering it up or hiding it.

In 20 years, the survivors of the next 2 will be discussing and documenting, I hope, the structure of politics and buildup and bad faith bullshit as has been seen and develops an effective way to prevent this kind of sickness.

I personally use the term "Nazi" to mean not just current Nazis but those whose trajectory will almost inevitably carry them into that space in the future, just like one might refer to a the combination of a singularity and accretion disk, together, a "black hole" - even though most of that matter in the disk is not yet past the event horizon it will be there soon.

Of course this lets those who know they are within the metaphorical "accretion disk" play across the definition, on the technicality that they may be the one photon out of the tonnes of matter that escapes to reach out eye from the outside. "I'm not the singularity" they say when they say "I am not a Nazi".

Well, for a human in that sucking funnel, one of the hallmarks of what will eventually be the photon that isn't, is that it will say "what if I am, and I am going in that direction? How must I change to not?"

At least humans may do this thing more actively than randomly.

It takes a first step that will lead to more, harder, steps.

It takes admitting there's a problem and you might have been trapped inside it as a part of it.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

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Vermont state senator faces bipartisan calls for resignation over ‘hateful statements’ in GOP chat​

Vermont’s political establishment is calling for the resignation of a Republican state senator over racist comments he allegedly made in a private chat group that exploded into scandal Tuesday.

Senator Samuel Douglass, who represents a rural county in the Northeast Kingdom, was implicated in a Politico report on leaked messages among young Republican leaders around the country. The chat group featured racist, sexist, and antisemitic language, including approving references to Adolf Hitler, slavery, and rape.

Douglass, who also chairs the Vermont Young Republicans, is quoted in the leaked chats discussing a woman whom a mutual friend had apparently dated. When one chat participant described her as a “very obese Indian woman” and another wrote that she “was not Indian,” Douglass replied, “She just didn’t bathe often.”

Boston Globe probably paywalled

Vermont state senator faces bipartisan calls for resignation over ‘hateful statements’ in GOP chat - The Boston Globe

Samuel Douglass was implicated in a Politico report on leaked messages among young Republican leaders around the country that featured racist, sexist, and antisemitic language.

www.bostonglobe.com

The Republicans will just give this the good ol' "Fuck you!" treatment.

Prior to ~2015 this would've meant instant ejection from either party and the offending person would never be heard from again. Now they embrace it.

They are going further than that... Notice two pages of discussion over the course of days, and not a single response that, at least for me, would require the appearance of a "show blocked posts" widget.

Again, certain posters who are very loud about claiming conservatives are not Nazis are somehow completely silent on this.

@Jason Harvestdancer, @Emily Lake, @Derec, @Bomb#20

Do none of you have anything to say about what the Republican party actually is about?

There is no "both sides" here. There is no Democrat chat cheering on gas chambers as consequences of voting against gas chambers...

They have nothing to say about the fact that Project 2025 is happening either (yes I will keep bringing it up).

 

[Bomb#20]

They are going further than that... Notice two pages of discussion over the course of days, and not a single response that, at least for me, would require the appearance of a "show blocked posts" widget.

I'd long suspected you prefer an echo chamber.

Again, certain posters who are very loud about claiming conservatives are not Nazis are somehow completely silent on this.

<snip> @Bomb#20

Quote me, you serial putter of words in other people's mouths.

Do none of you have anything to say about what the Republican party actually is about?

What is it you want me to add to what I've already repeatedly said? A plague on both your houses.

There is no "both sides" here.

The Democrats are running a communist for mayor of New York City. He'll probably win.

There is no Democrat chat cheering on gas chambers as consequences of voting against gas chambers...

IIDB's very own Madame Defarge repeatedly drooled over sending class enemies to the guillotine.

 

[Jarhyn]

A plague on both your houses

a communist

Lol, a guy who stands to the center of European politics is now a "communist", and that's somehow "as deserving of a plague" as checks notes: open celebration of extermination over political views.

An economic aim you disagree with.

Actual Hitler living Nazis.

"Both sides".

I also don't see "class enemies" being asked to be sent to the Guillotines, although I do think that great fortunes come with great sins requiring great humility and altruistic follow through, and if this is not provided, the sons join willfully in the sins of the fathers.

Even then I personally wouldn't want the guillotine.

"Both sides".

No, this is calling directly for the execution of political opponents and celebrating the idea of it, involving a US senator.

I don't see any US senators here on these forums, ya?

 

[Politesse]

Someone made the mistake of opening the door on a Frat house farting contest.

If a sitting US Senator is at a Frat house farting contest, it's fair game to open the door on it.

 

[crazyfingers]

Someone made the mistake of opening the door on a Frat house farting contest.

If a sitting US Senator is at a Frat house farting contest, it's fair game to open the door on it.

The Vermont guy is just a state senetor. But it's still very shitty.

 

[Jarhyn]

They have nothing to say about the fact that Project 2025 is happening either (yes I will keep bringing it up).

They still don't.

All it takes is a simple statement with no follow-up:

"The Republicans do seem to have a Nazi problem"

Then this will inevitably provoke a question "what ought they do about it?"

When I see that some culture has some sort of problem, I usually say "they need to reject this component completely, and work to foil 'the quiet part', to expose them and remove them and show the world that this evil does not define them."

The Democrats work that way.

I can only assume that the reason Republicans seem to be immune to making such simple direct rejection of hate.

I find it a constant predictor of whether someone is a Nazi or whether someone is not, not in whether they say they are a Nazi (for a Nazi will know well enough to find a new way to identify because "Nazi" was burned in WW2), but rather in how they argue, generally dishonestly with "both sides" where one side is an ocean and the other a thimble that still is diligently emptied despite the rain, and yet someone wants to say both sides are "hopelessly wet".

Do you think anyone does not at this point find you dishonest, those who argue both sides when we have US senators and offices with swastika flags, claiming there is no systematic racism or fascist tendencies in the Republican party?

A pox just on you, all you who continue to support and run interference on this.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I feel sorry for Al Franken.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Some of these young boys have very receding hairlines.

 

[ZiprHead]

Just locker room talk.

 

[laughing dog]

They are going further than that... Notice two pages of discussion over the course of days, and not a single response that, at least for me, would require the appearance of a "show blocked posts" widget.

I'd long suspected you prefer an echo chamber.

Again, certain posters who are very loud about claiming conservatives are not Nazis are somehow completely silent on this.

<snip> @Bomb#20

Quote me, you serial putter of words in other people's mouths.

Do none of you have anything to say about what the Republican party actually is about?

What is it you want me to add to what I've already repeatedly said? A plague on both your houses.

There is no "both sides" here.

The Democrats are running a communist for mayor of New York City. He'll probably win.

A plaque on the houses of those who cannot distinguish between communists and socialists!

 

[laughing dog]

And those young men helped propel Trump to victory but racism had noyhing to do with it,

 

[Shadowy Man]

Some of these young boys have very receding hairlines.

They were prematurely aged by the horrors of the Biden administration.