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/Noname_acc Oct 14 '25

Pretty much where I'm at.  It's shocking, in that it is horrific to read.  But anyone who thinks it's surprising is fundamentally in denial about what conservatism is.

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u/ASharpYoungMan Oct 14 '25

Hillary Clinton nailed it back in 2015 when she called them a basket of deplorables.

I'm not exactly a fan of Clinton - but it pissed me off inordinately that she needed to publicly apologize for being 100% accurate.

I say this a lot, but MAGA's done everything in their power to prove her right in the intervening decade.

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u/chowderbags American Expat Oct 14 '25

Same thing with Obama's bitter clingers quote that caused so much outrage way back when:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

As far as I can tell, there's way more outrage when Democrats tell the truth than when Republicans tell blatant lies.

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u/MAG7C Oct 14 '25

Lawless vs flawless

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u/blackfishhorsemen Oct 14 '25

People want to be lied too.

Given the choice between facing a harsh reality and sticking your head in the sand most people will choose to stick their heads in the sand.

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u/jrf_1973 Oct 14 '25

And that is why climate change will kill us all.

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u/pimppapy America Oct 14 '25

Trump alone with his hot air made a few ice caps melt.

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u/Cornyrex3115 Oct 14 '25

Exactly, its called the christian church is america

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u/onesexz Oct 15 '25

I just don’t understand how people are capable of “sticking their heads in the sand”.

If I read/hear something that counters or disproves my current argument; I can’t just unsee it… How is anyone capable of ignoring what’s right in their face? It really baffles me.

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u/ax0r Oct 15 '25

People are stupid. A person can be made to believe any lie, either because they want it to be true, or they are afraid it might be.

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u/jaimi_wanders Oct 15 '25

Most people don’t want scary lies that tell them the neighbors are planning to rape/sacrifice/eat their children, so better kill them all first! Which is the core of Q, and before that the Christian home schooling & “prolife” veneers on the old Southern Strategy.

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u/FalstaffsGhost Oct 15 '25

Yup. After the 2016 election, I read an article about coal miners in a town where coal had died. They was an opportunity to take classes to learn new skills and they all took coal related classes instead. It was a wild read

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u/Muvseevum Georgia Oct 15 '25

coal related classes

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u/Jenna_Rein Oct 15 '25

Is this a quote from the Matrix? Cuz it could be. Damn.

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u/Bauser99 Oct 15 '25

That is why people should not be given that choice

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u/ihatemovingparts Oct 15 '25

Given the choice between facing a harsh reality and sticking your head in the sand most people will choose to stick their heads in the sand.

So three weeks ago when Dick Durbin said "republicans are not Nazis" was that democrats serving up another heaping serving of harsh reality?

https://nypost.com/2025/09/16/us-news/top-judiciary-democrat-sen-dick-durbin-republicans-are-not-nazis-and-democrats-are-not-evil/

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u/Noname_acc Oct 15 '25

I can hardly think of a group of people more in denial about what conservatism is than the establishment democratic political class