Politico published the texts of Young Republican leaders, and they are exactly how you thought they’d be, calling Black people monkeys and “the watermelon people” and musing about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide, and so much more. The 2,900 leaked group chat messages reveal that the Young Republicans are Hitler stans, misogynists, racists, and violent bigots.
Vice President J.D. Vance used some bothsiderism to say the leaked text messages sent by Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones are “far worse” than the Young Republicans’ chat. Of course, two things can be bad at the same time, but Vance is a weak man and fell in line with his party, which, to me, suggests that he’s OK with the anti-semitic, Hitler-loving Young Republicans. He did not call them out, but he did mention Jones’s chat.
“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia,” Vance wrote on the Bad App, and included a screenshot of Jones apparently admitting that he had hoped the former Republican Virginia House Speaker’s children would die.
“Yes, I told you this before,” Jones reportedly wrote in the chat. “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”
