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Let's Stop Pretending To Be Shocked That Young Republicans 'Love Hitler'

Let's Stop Pretending To Be Shocked That Young Republicans 'Love Hitler'

Insert LinkInsert LinkPretending to be “shocked” by junior Republicans revealing their inner Klansmen must be a challenge, at this late date, for anyone who has been paying attention. Perhaps some of the GOP officials proclaiming their disgust over the disclosure of thousands of racist, antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist and yes, Hitlerian texts exchanged by leaders of the National Young Republicans organization are sincere – but are they truly surprised?

Replete with primitive bigotry and fantasies of horrific violence, the messages unearthed by Politico capture the essential character of Trumpism and those attracted to it. Given what we already know about the Young Republicans, the MAGA movement, and the direction of the Republican Party in the Trump years, this latest scandal is no surprise at all.

It is not at all astonishing to learn that leading figures among Donald Trump’s political heirs profess their “love” of Hitler and their hatred for almost everyone else. The infestation of the Republican Party by neo-Nazis and their fellow travelers is a sickening and rapidly growing phenomenon that has only gotten more pronounced in recent years as party leaders averted their gaze.

Indeed, the angry protest heard from responsible Republicans in 2017, when Trump praised the “good people on both sides” after the Charlottesville neo-Nazi riot, has faded into distant memory. The outrages have grown more frequent and blatant, but Republican leaders simply ignore them – and meanwhile the neo-Nazi infiltration proceeds rapidly. Just ask Nick Fuentes, the goose-stepping Gen Z YouTuber who got his first taste of fame when he dined with Trump and Kanye West, another Hitler admirer, at Mar-a-Lago.

Remember that little scandal? Unbelievably, Trump later claimed not to know what West had said or who Fuentes is, but the unsavory pair somehow got into his private club for an intimate meeting. And although the then-former president issued a social media blast at West over his effrontery in planning to run for president, Trump never said a critical word about Fuentes.

That little hate entrepreneur – who along with most of the Young Republican Nazi sympathizers bears no resemblance whatsoever to the Aryan “master race” – has consorted with many prominent Republicans, including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spoke at his white nationalist “American First Political Action Committee” conference and has hired various neo-Nazis to work on her campaigns and in her office. In that regard, Greene is hardly a MAGA outlier. Her colleague Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), infamous for his fantasy animations of deadly violence against Democrats, also runs a ultra-right hiring hall on Capitol Hill.Not to be overlooked is Gosar’s fellow Arizona Republican, State Sen. Wendy Rogers, the kind of aging fangirl who shares Nazi song lyrics on X.

The notorious Fuentes visit wasn’t the last time that white nationalists or actual Nazis were welcomed onto Trump property. Candace Owens, the raving anti-Semitic podcaster recently barred from Australia, has headlined a campaign fundraiser with Donald Trump Jr. Both Don Jr. and brother Eric have appeared at the Trump Doral’s “Reawaken America” events that also featured outspoken anti-Semites and neo-Nazis. Jack Posobiec, the far-right operative who is frequently seen at Mar-a-Lago and enjoys presidential patrongage, has a long history of promoting neo-Nazis and sharing anti-Semitic propaganda on social media. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host and Trump confidant, another longtime fan favorite on the ultra-right, has taken to promoting Holocaust revisionism.

As for the Young Republicans -- and especially the New York state chapter -- their vile ravings in private chats were not exactly astounding either. The Manhattan Young Republicans, whose leader Gavin Wax has been blamed for this week’s chat leak due to an internecine feud, repeatedly hosted ultra-right extremists like Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. The club’s 2024 gala attracted such honored guests as the Berlin youth chair of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland Party, an outfit founded and heavily laden with real live Nazis.

Only three years ago their prospective candidate for governor, upstate New York Rep Elise Stefanik, backed a foul-mouthed bigot named Carl Paladino in a Congressional primary -- an endorsement she did not withdraw even after Media Matters resurfaced an interview where the Buffalo developer described Hitler as "the kind of leader we need today." Somehow Stefanik excused his remarks as "taken out of context," but he lost the primary anyway. The point is that even Paladino, having uttered many such slurs during his public career, wasn't too extreme for the Republican who rose to the third-highest position in the GOP House conference.

So when "conservative" Republicans put on their horrified faces-- and even fire a bozo like the New York state YR chairman Peter Giunta -- it is appropriate to be skeptical or even cynical. The authentic MAGA reaction to their vile babble was voiced instantly by Vice President JD Vance, who reacted by citing a string of awful texts sent by Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, the nominee for attorney general, in which he fantasized about lethal violence against Republicans. Horrifying as Jones’s texts were, they displayed only his own immaturity and stupidity. Yet Vance seized on them to excuse the “kids” in the Young Republican chat group, most of whom are well into adulthood, with several holding jobs in the Trump administration or even elected office.

Just as there is no such organization as “Antifa,” despite the wild ravings and accusations of the Trump White House, so there is no equivalent among Democrats to the political sewer inhabited by the Young Republicans. Every Republican politician who professes to be appalled must know better by now. The filth runs too deep and too wide to be cleansed by hosing a few hapless morons.

Joe Conason is founder and editor-in-chief of The National Memo. He is also editor-at-large of Type Investigations, a nonprofit investigative reporting organization formerly known as The Investigative Fund. His latest book is The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (St. Martin's Press, 2024).

Misogynist (And Neo-Nazi) Fuentes Sent Trump's Message To Women

Misogynist (And Neo-Nazi) Fuentes Sent Trump's Message To Women

"Your body, my choice. Forever."

That was the chilling message that Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist, misogynist, and antisemitic Holocaust denier shared on X ( formerly known as Twitter) at 11:19 pm on Election Night.

Since then, it’s been viewed almost 92 million times, ‘liked ‘52,000 times and retweeted 35,000 times. That disturbing tweet epitomizes the result of this election in a nutshell.

Despite women already being relegated to second class status in the 21 states with strict abortion bans, Trump -- the man responsible -- paid absolutely no price. In fact, voters rewarded him with his biggest win yet.The convicted sexual abuser and convicted felon swept all seven swing states and has collected 312 Electoral College votes versus Kamala Harris’s 226. Trump’s election was so decisiv ethat he and his supporters like Nick Fuentes are gloating over the mandate that American voters have very willingly handed them. Fuentes bragged on his X account that Trump’s win was a "TOTAL GROYPER VICTORY."

"Groypers" are Fuentes' white nationalist, sexist, homophobic, and fascist fan boys. That tweet had 2.2 million views and 18,000 likes. Then, as if 51 percent of the population that’s female didn’t already get his message, Fuentes crowed about how much he hates women with this gem the next day: "I’d just like to take the opportunity to thank men for saving this country from stupid bitches who wanted to destroy the world to keep abortion." For that he was rewarded with 2.1 million views and 46,000 retweets.

I’m sorry to bring these horrifying messages to your attention,but as a woman and mother of three daughters and a son, I’m one of those "bitches" that fought hard to protect a woman’s right to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions by electing Kamala Harris and also writing about the deadly harm of abortion bans.

Now, I think it’s important to be realistic about what women an dthe men who truly love them are up against. A tidal wave of hate against women and girls has been unleashed by Trump’s election and lots of Americans are OK with it., just like they were in 2016.

That’s when they elected him the first time after 26 women credibly accused him of sexual assault and Trump confirmed
himself that he loves to "grab 'em by the pussy” in the Access Hollywood video tape.

Now, Nick Fuentes is not the only hater advocating ecstatically that women after this election can be pushed back under the complete control of men.There was a 4600 percent increase right after Trump’s November 5 election in the use of the "Your Body My Choice" slogan well as the "get back in the kitchen" phrase just on X alone, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Where are all the dads who should be outraged by these vicious attacks on their daughters? Fifty-four per cent of men got on the Trump voter train, and while I’ve heard a number of men claiming they chose Trump as president in order to protect their daughters' sports teams, they clearly weren’t concerned about ensuring that their daughters wouldn’t bleed out due to a miscarriage or any other pregnancy complication.

And on the protecting girls' sports argument by those "safeguarding" dads, let’s just take a minute to look at some actual facts.Only 1.3 percent of the population of 13 --17 years old identify as transgender in the US. Let’s say half of those are transgender girls, so that’s at most 0.7 percent of the population -- and most of those transgender girls are not athletes. In fact, since 2004 when trans athletes were first allowed to compete in the Olympics, there have been 24,158 female competitors and only one has been trans.

That means that dads and moms who claim they voted forTrump to protect girls' sports were actually only giving themselves an acceptable excuse to cast their votes for a misogynist .Their daughters have almost zero chance of ever having to compete against a trans teen girl on a sports team. But they will be risking their lives and fertility under Trump abortion bans anytime they get pregnant.

Under a Trump presidency it’s more than likely that he will end abortion nationally and the healthcare horrors for women that have already been documented in the 21 anti-abortion states will explode across the country.

Deaths have already soared 56 percent for women in Texas while they were pregnant, during childbirth or not long after giving birth since the state’s first abortion ban was imposed. That’s because doctors face 99-year prison sentences in the state if they provide medically necessary abortions and D & C’s ( dilation and curettage procedures) for pregnancy -related complications.Texas has also led the country in rape pregnancies since the Supreme Court tossed out Roe v. Wade. Women suffered over 26,000 pregnancies as a result of rape in the state within the first 16 months of its abortion ban. Let’s also be realistic about how hostile Trump will be to women and the full range of women’s reproductive healthcare, despite his declaration that he will be the "protector" of women "whether the women like it or not."

As for Nick Fuentes, on top of being a white supremacist and antisemite, he is a self identified "incel." Incels are "involuntary celibate" men who cannot find a woman who will date them -- and therefore blame and denigrate all women.You’d think the "protector" of women would shun Fuentes. But no! Trump had dinner with him and antisemite Kanye West at Mar -a- Lago in November 2022. He has never denounced or distancedhimself from Fuentes -- even now.

So what can Americans who do truly care about the lives ofwomen and their daughters do?

First, there’s no time or reason to be finger pointing at Kamala Harris, who was a total champion for women’s reproductive freedom. That isn’t fair to Kamala and it’s unproductive in terms of climbing out of this dark hole. Instead it is time for us women to stiffen our backbones and summon our inner Amazons -- and get ready to keep on fighting to get our reproductive rights back all across the country.Plus, we need to keep enlisting the support of all our wonderfu lmale allies.

There will be organizations and leaders who emerge shortly with smart strategies on how to constructively organize to elect abortion -supporting candidates in local and state elections in the next year, and then in the 2026 midterms. Then we must work to elect those candidates and defeat the antiabortion zealots at all levels of government.

It will take time. It took decades to get us to this frightening place .But we can come back from setbacks. Women have come back from way worse before.Think of those determined suffragettes who endured prison time and forced feedings as they fought to get the right to vote. Healthy American women have already died because of DonaldTrump and his abortion bans. These were young women who would be alive and well with their families today, except that they had the bad luck of experiencing a pregnancy complication in an ‘abortion ban’ state.

Many, many more will die needlessly in the next four years.It is important to bear witness to every single one of these tragedies and to keep working loudly and effectively to restore reproductive freedom in America.

Kari Lake Appears To Welcome White Nationalist Into Her Senate Campaign

Kari Lake Appears To Welcome White Nationalist Into Her Senate Campaign

Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has been cozying up to a well-known white nationalist and QAnon-adjacent operative, the Arizona Mirror reports. Wade Searle has been called one of neo-Nazi leader Nick Fuentes’ “strongest soldiers.” Searle lost his job working for the extremist Rep. Paul Gosar after Talking Points Memo exposed his ties to Fuentes.

So of course Searle has been welcomed by Lake, the biggest election denier of 2022 after she lost her gubernatorial bid to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Lake continued to claim she was the “lawful governor”—even as she was filing papers to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by Kyrsten Sinema, who announced Tuesday that she will not seek reelection.

Like the true Donald Trump fanatic she is, Lake filed repeated lawsuits to challenge the election outcome. Like Trump, she just kept losing those suits. Also like Trump, she’s embroiled in a defamation lawsuit over her attacks on an election official.

Searle has been showing up at Lake’s campaign events, even standing prominently behind her when Sen. John Barrasso—a member of the Senate GOP leadership—recently gave her his endorsement.

Lake’s campaign and Searle boost each other’s social media posts, and Searle seems to be involved with two Arizona groups, Students for Kari and Students for Trump, the Mirror reports. Lake, Searle, and the groups didn’t respond to the Mirror’s request for comment and clarification about his role in her campaign.

That endorsement from Barrasso isn’t a one-off from Senate Republican leadership or the GOP establishment. They’re coalescing behind Lake’s bid—never mind the MAGA-spouting white nationalist neo-Nazi lurking just below the surface of her campaign. A whole mess of senators are holding a fundraiser for her in Washington this week, including wannabe Senate Minority Leader John Cornyn, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Steve Daines, and Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair Joni Ernst.

Is it official now? Has the Senate GOP just declared themselves the party of Trump and white nationalists? Sure seems like it.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos.

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Rumble To Host Third GOP Debate As Neo-Nazi Fuentes Grows Audience There

Between vile antisemitic statements, white nationalist influencer and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has been celebrating his viewership on Rumble, the alternative video hosting site and exclusive streaming partner for the upcoming Republican presidential debate. While Fuentes is a constant source of extreme hatred and bigotry, his comments are especially disturbing as incidents of antisemitism have increased around the world in the context of Israel’s siege on Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack. In addition to Rumble, NBC News will partner with the Republican Jewish Coalition to host the third GOP presidential debate.

Fuentes streams live on Rumble multiple times a week, usually for well over an hour at a time. Since the outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza in October, he’s been using the opportunity to double down on his antisemitic and white nationalist rhetoric.

“It's not just the mass migration, it's not just that the country's becoming non-white, it's that the country is being held hostage by Jews,” Fuentes told his more than 40 thousand Rumble followers on October 31.

During the same stream, Fuentes noted that his audience size has grown and is now perhaps even greater than it was on YouTube before he was banned from the site. He said, “And now, I think the show is bigger than it's been in a really long time.”

A week prior, Fuentes claimed that those who have lost their jobs for supporting Palestine prove the validity of his attacks against Jewish people and summarized his antisemitic views: “Why do these Zionist Jews have so much power in Western countries? I guess that means Nick Fuentes was right, and it isn’t Klaus Schwab. It's the Zionists, and it's the Jews. It's organized Jewry.”

He continued, warning against what he described as “a lot of Jews that are sneaking into the dissident conversation because they wanna control all the opposition” and arguing that Jewish people are attempting to co-opt racism to be used against Palestinians. But, he claimed, “We’re more antisemitic than we’re racist.”

Having previously served as an adviser to rapper Ye’s 2024 presidential campaign, Fuentes complained, “They did the same thing last year with Ye. When Ye was out there saying, ‘I love Hitler. Jews control the media.’” Fuentes continued, claiming “based right-wing Jews” attacked the rapper and had questioned, “‘Since when did we start supporting Black guys?’” Fuentes quickly followed up: “When they started saying they love Hitler. About right around then.”

Despite his extensive use of the site, Fuentes has a strained relationship with Rumble. Media Matters reported that for a short period, Fuentes was suspended from livestreaming to the platform and restricted to only uploading “replays,” or previously recorded content, after having some of his videos removed from the site for violating the platform’s policies against “incitement to violence.” As recently as August 8, it appears Fuentes had resumed streaming directly to Rumble, and he has since celebrated his popularity on the site.

Rumble was also the exclusive livestreaming partner for the last two GOP debates and now, alongside the RNC and the Republican Jewish Coalition, is partnering to host the third. The platform is rife with violent extremism, misinformation, and other harmful content and serves as an alternative “free speech” space for exiled far-right figures to share the hateful rhetoric other sites have banned.

Rumble also makes money off the antisemitic, white nationalist, and QAnon content on the site. Rumble even placed RNC ads on a number of pro-Hitler videos, on top of providing a home to creators who deny the Holocaust, praise Nazis, and even call for the murder of Catholic Charity workers.

Reprinted with permission from Media Matters.

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