The only thing more offensive – and revealing – than Young Republicans’ ugly texts is JD Vance’s dismissal of them as “what kids do.”
The texts, sent by Young Republican leaders around the country, included: “I love Hitler,” “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” and frequent use of f-words, r-words and the n-word.
Politico discovered and reported the uplifting exchanges: “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.”
That didn’t faze Vance. On the Charlie Kirk Show, run now by Kirk’s colleagues, he pooh-poohed it all:
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And 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.”
These “young boys” are in their 20s and 30s. Vance is 41.
Vance himself is quick to ruin the lives and careers of anyone who says anything critical of Charlie Kirk.
The texts expose what many Republicans, young and old, have become under Trump.
They market their “Christian values.”
Their own words tell us who they really are.
