There are Republicans defending the Young Republicans and there are those who are denouncing them.
WABC 7ByStacey SagerOctober 17, 2025Fallout continues for New York's Young Republican chapter as a pivotal vote to disband the group has been approved.The decision comes after a series of racist and antisemitic messages from a private group chat were made public.Several former leaders have already lost their jobs, and Friday's vote is seen as a step toward a fresh start.It's a blow to the Republican Party, and it has top GOP leaders emphatically distancing themselves from any of those involved.A group chat on the Telegram messaging app including certain members of the Young Republican National Federation, was exposed in a Politico report detailing seven months of racist, anti-semitic, and violent texts that reportedly became part of their culture.
But JD Vance said according to the Guardian,
JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist and sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I love Hitler” – as youthful indiscretions.Vance suggested that the participants in the leaked chats were much younger than they in fact were. Some of the participants were barely younger than the 41-year-old vice-president.
The other thing to think about is why did think it was okay for them to think it was all right to use that type of language? These were not "kids" like Vance said adults and one was a legislator!
The G.O.P. officials who participated in a group text chat have faced calls to step down. State Senator Samuel Douglass was the group’s only elected member.The New York TimesBy David W. ChenOct. 17, 2025A Vermont Republican legislator who faced bipartisan condemnation after participating in a long-running group chat that was peppered with racist and antisemitic language announced on Friday that he would resign.State Senator Samuel Douglass, 26, was one of a dozen young Republican Party activists from around the country who had participated in the texts, which were first reported on Tuesday by Politico. And while some participants worked for Republican lawmakers or held government posts, Mr. Douglass was the only elected official.
Did they really think it was okay to use that language if no one learned about it?
“Offense was taken and people were hurt, so I will mend bridges to the best of my ability. Since the story broke, I have reached out to the majority of my Jewish and BIPOC friends and colleagues to ensure that they can be honest and upfront with me, and I know that as a young person I have a duty to set a good example for others,” Mr. Douglass added, using an acronym for Black, Indigenous and people of color.
They used it so casually that it must be normal for them. And now they expect it to blow over... we cannot let it!
That point to the Republicans' moral compress.
Update: 5:30PM
Politico:
As the White House attempts to redirect focus to violent Democratic rhetoric, Republicans face the vexing choice of how to respond to a trove of hateful messages.By Jason Beeferman10/18/202When POLITICO approached Rep. Elise Stefanik this month with hate-filled messages from the same Young Republicans she backed and bankrolled for years, her condemnation was swift and full-throated.Hours after the story published — and just minutes after Vice President JD Vance derided criticisms of the chat as “pearl clutching” — Stefanik pivoted to attacking Democrats. She derided POLITICO’s story as a “hit piece” and those across the aisle raising alarm about it as “hyperventilating.”
For them racist speech is common, so they are surprised when others condemn it.
“These were not even candidates for elected office outside of internally in a young professional political organization,” Stefanik wrote on X, shortly after Vance’s post. “Meanwhile, the VA Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones said he wanted to shoot his political opponent in the head and wanted their children to die in their mother’s arms. Democrats have refused to condemn this violent rhetoric and refused to call for him to exit the race.”Stefanik’s shift reflects a broader dilemma Republicans across the country are now facing as they’re forced to confront a damaging situation: whether to denounce or deflect in their public messaging in response to a trove of private discussions Democrats say is proof of the GOP’s long-dismissed problem with white supremacy.
There is no doubt, the leadership of the Republican's are not only racist but also
On the national level, Vance doubled down on his initial comments by attempting to draw more attention to texts from Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones, in which Jones talks about shooting his political opponent.
They are so used to it that they don't see it!
Resign, disband, go sit in the corner but they and all of them and them and them are still with us. Fascists do not just go away they must be dealt with a blow. The internationale tells us strike while the iron is hot! The top GOP leaders and even the secret democrats who are racist, homophobic, transphobic idiots can distance themselves all they want but we know it is nothing more than the wearing of a mask. I am not fooled, been around too long. I am not fooled either by the hopes that the constitution written by genocidal, slavers will save us. One two three away it goes. Happened in every authoritarian regime. No pretty sign, no yelling until your go hoarse, or your feet swelling from marching is going to save us. No ballot box or putting our faith in restoring the system. It is broken, and baby it's been that way for years as it corrected itself at a snail's pace but bringing into the every new day mold of the old. No wonder we are in such a mess. Too many say, "don't talk about revolution, that's going a little bit too far," but the day is coming when there will be no other choice. Away with all vain phantoms of the new day!
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