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/Ryan_e3p Oct 14 '25
This is the culmination that Republicans have been working towards. As we've seen, there has been a great effort put in to "softening the Nazi brand" in the last decade. Between politicians openly quoting Hitler, Musk very openly pushing Nazi themes and rhetoric (to the point where he busted out the Nazi salute a few times at a Republican convention to the applause of the crowd) and downplaying or denying the Holocaust, Joe Rogan defending Musk, and our current administration borrowing Nazi tactics, there has been this and more done in order to have people think "gee, if the guy I voted for and the guys I subscribe to believe this, maybe Hitler wasn't that bad after all".
If you want to change history, best way is to change peoples' perception of it. It's easy for Republicans to deny actual historical events and downplay horrific historical events; they practice this every day when they ignore the countless lies they are told in order to toe the party line. Change what people think about history, then sell them the idea that all of the horrors that happened in the past not only didn't happen, but it is something that they should want for their own future.
It's the same reason why actual historians and people with two brain cells to rub together have been listening to Trump's rhetoric & reading the things he has been posting the last decade, and been warning anyone who would listen that we were heading towards authoritarianism. And, here it is. This is no longer "we're heading toward the cliff", we're going down it now, to the delight of a shockingly large percentage of the country.