"they aren't just exposing their own anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and misogyny. To see only the varieties of bigotry with which we're painfully familiar is to miss the depth of MAGA's moral collapse. Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic-it's antihuman. It's a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent. The texts degrade all of us."
"Cruelty and humiliation have become the Trump administration's common currency. With permission from President Donald Trump's coarse rhetoric and vows of hatred, Elon Musk's Nazi salute, Tucker Carlson's flirtation with Holocaust denial, and Stephen Miller's rage-filled threats, the young loyalists who wrote the texts were speaking the language of the people they admire most. Nor was it surprising when, the day after Politico revealed the texts' existence,"
Young Republican leaders exchanged texts praising Hitler, joking about gas chambers and rape, approving slavery, using racial and homophobic slurs, and demeaning others. Those messages demonstrate anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and misogyny and signal a deeper moral collapse within MAGA that rejects basic human decency. The texts proudly express contempt for fundamental standards of goodness and degrade the broader community. Cruelty and humiliation have been normalized by Trump-era rhetoric and by influential figures who model coarse language and intolerance. Vice President J.D. Vance declined to condemn the messages, framing them as offensive jokes rather than career-ruining acts. The permissive culture made more extreme symbols and behavior inevitable.
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