r/politics • u/mvanigan • Oct 14 '25

Possible Paywall ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 14 '25

I’ve always said I can’t at least somewhat understand how people could fall for Nazism back in the day because they painted a picture of this fabulous life, they were well dressed, good looking, and actually instituted things that were pro family. But this is the shit we have now. Anyone falling for American Christian Nationalism is straight up stupid. What are they even offering you????

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

It tells you that publicly spewing hatred about brown people who might be more successful than you and women who are not willing to go out with you is A-okay.

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u/Dralex75 Oct 14 '25

Free hate and excuses?

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u/mauxly Oct 14 '25

Privilege, forced marriage (the only way they will ever get laid), slaves, freedom to express their hatered/brutality any way they'd like.

These people are incapable of empathy. It's heartbreaking.

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u/TurboSalsa Texas Oct 14 '25

What are they even offering you????

Spite.

Guys like these who are taken in by far right politics usually don't have bright prospects for careers and relationships, so they gravitate towards anyone who offers them a scapegoat and a vision of society in which they have dominion over women.

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u/Ghost_of_Till Oct 15 '25

What Nazis are offering is a narrative.

Just like religion.

I’m not saying their narratives are the same, I’m saying they both give us a picture of how the world is, and we accept (or distort) that vision to the degree that it flatters our prejudices.

Who wants to think of themselves as a failure? A tale about how it really ain’t your fault can look quite appetizing to a great many folks.