The GOP has made it clear: 'I love Hitler'

While young Republicans openly embrace Nazis, Trump is moving to limit immigration to white people only, as the GOP is now a haven for white supremacists.

For weeks, Republicans, including Donald Trump, have railed against Americans who’ve called them “fascists” and “Nazis”—based on Trump’ authoritarian actions—claiming that the criticism was responsible Charlie Kirk’s death.

This is the same party that for years has attacked Democrats for “cancel culture” and supposed “woke” assaults on free speech, with JD Vance among those leading the charge. (It also is the same party that was perfectly fine with Trump calling his opponents “fascists” and “communists” and “Marxists”).

But there Vance was in the White House just after Kirk’s death, telling people to contact the employers of anyone who wrote harshly about Kirk, to make sure they were punished. Many people lost their jobs.

Of course, Kirk’s death was the result of a deranged individual who was taught how to kill within a radical gun culture embraced by his MAGA family—a young man who had access to an assault weapon, which was perfectly legal to bring on a college campus in Utah, thanks to Republican policies.

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But not only was criticism of Trump as a fascist not responsible for Kirk’s death; the comparison to the Nazis is absolutely correct, and you only have to ask the 30-somethings who were on the Telegram chat of the Young Republicans groups which went public this week.

As you’ve probably seen by now, Politico got the chats, publishing a bombshell story showing how these not-so-young Republicans even knew what they were saying was very risky to put in a chat, but couldn’t help themselves:

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

…In another exchange, Dwyer, the Kansas’ chair, informs Giunta that one of Michigan’s Young Republicans promised him the group “will vote for the most right wing person” to lead the national organization.

“Great. I love Hitler,” Giunta responded.

Dwyer reacted with a smiley face.

..Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined.

There’s a lot more. Republicans began scurrying to do damage control, after these individuals—many of whom worked on the staffs of GOP office holders and within the Republican Party—became a political liability. But Republican leaders actually appear to be split into two camps, both of which are completely fraudulent and all about political expedience.

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There are those like Rep. Elise Stefanik, the MAGA House member from upstate New York who only two months ago accepted an award from the Young Republicans, who desperately condemned the group. Stefanik, coming under strong criticism by Democrats, said she was “absolutely appalled to learn about the alleged comments made by leaders of the New York State Young Republicans.”

And then there were those like JD Vance, who said that he would not join the “pearl-clutching” while he sloughed off white supremacist views expressed by a group of 24 to 34-year-olds as “what kids do” :

I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke – telling a very offensive, stupid joke – is cause to ruin their lives.

That there is even a split in the GOP on something so appalling as praising the Nazis and using racist slurs is all you need to know. The net result is that the two camps cancel each other out, both examples of political expediency, though Vance is closer to what the MAGA base believes now.

Stefanik and others condemning the chat are disingenuous because they have immediate political concerns. Stefanik has to run for re-election in a race that could be tough, and also is mounting a challenge to New York Governor Kathy Hochul next year in a very liberal state.

Stefanik took an award from these vile bigots and helped promote them as the next generation of Republicans. More than that, she’s backed the very racist and authoritarian policies of Trump, including sending masked agents into city streets rounding up brown people and weaponizing the justice system.

Vance, meanwhile, is a complete fraud, an empty vessel who will do anything for power, and someone who is far more dangerous than Trump. He himself called Trump “America’s Hitler,” just a few years ago, when he thought it was expedient to be anti-Trump.

But a few years later he’d attack Democrats for calling Trump a Nazi, saying it inspired violence, only to now excuse Republicans praising Hitler as just having fun. What was dangerous speech worthy of costing people their jobs just a few weeks ago is now just about “kids” (even though they’re grown adults in their 20s and 30s) who shouldn’t have “ruined lives” just for making jokes.

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It’s all wildly inconsistent, but Vance’s priority is power for power’s sake and making sure he is the heir to the MAGA throne. The Stefanik camp is also worried about power, but they’re operating in political environments in which a majority find the young Republicans’ chat grotesque and abhorrent. Vance is vying for the MAGA base nationally, and that right now is about embracing white supremacy.

Even as Trump is plummeting in polls, most of the GOP—the MAGA base—supports his racist and violent mass deportation plan and his white supremacist ideology, having now completely swallowed white supremacist Great Replacement theory.

And that’s one reason Trump feels confident in pushing the administration’s latest priority: limiting immigration to white people, and in particular to white supremacists and neo-Nazis. I kid you not.

From The New York Times yesterday:

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

And, specifically, that would include the German far-right extremist party, which Vance supported in the last major election in Germany, even giving a speech at the Munich Security Conference chastising the German government for “suppressing” their views:

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

Are Rep. Elise Stefanik, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (who condemned the Telegram chats after it was revealed he’d paid one man in the group for campaign work) and others in the GOP who condemn the chats opposed to Trump’s Aryan Nation immigration policy?

I highly doubt the answer to that would be yes, as they’ve supported all of Trump’s other Nazi-like policies, doing what they can to get his backing and stay in his favor.

So they can give us the faux condemnations all they want. Like Vance—who’s excusing people who are saying it all out loud—they’re part of what is increasingly an American neo-Nazi political party.