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Young US Republicans caught praising Hitler and rape

An exposé in Politico has drawn attention to young Republicans making some incredibly unseemly comments:

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.

He added:

It’s chilling, of course, because they will act on these views.

Others have commented on the story too:

A fish rots from the head

It’s not surprising that Young Republicans would have opinions from the 1930s when this is their leader:


While America gagged at the content of these chat logs, vice president JD Vance engaged in a bit of ‘whataboutism’:


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.

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

This post was originally published on Canary.