After a backlash and mounting pressure, Vermont State Sen. Samuel Douglass will resign over his participation in a racist Young Republicans’ racist group chat group, a story that was first published by Politico. in the 2,900 leaked group chat messages, Black people were called monkeys and “the watermelon people” and there was musing about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide, and so much more.
Vermont Public reports:
In his first public comments since Politico published a leaked group chat between members of Young Republican chapters in four states, including Vermont, Douglass said he was oblivious to the “disgusting comments” being made by his colleagues.
