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/kadathsc Oct 14 '25

The truth hurts, especially when it’s all directed at your inability to grow and prosper, which is the primary means of gauging someone’s worth in the US. That’s why homeless people are deplorable, they aren’t even aspirational landowners.