Violent threats and racist chats reveal toxic political culture nationwide

The group chat was very racist.

Black people were called “monkeys” and “watermelon people.”

The group chat was also completely anti-Semitic.

“I love Hitler.” Kill them in gas chambers. “Now I’m ready to watch people burn.”

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Oh, and there were jokes about rape (“epic”). And a slur against homosexuals that includes the actions of nerds.

This reporting by Politico The report, based on 2,900 pages of leaked conversations by the Young Republicans organization, caused a national uproar.

However, J.D. Vance dismissed it as a “college group chat” and said “kids, especially young boys, do stupid things.”

In fact, these were young adults (according to the rules) under the age of 40, working as political strategists and government personnel.

Vermont state Senator Sam Douglass apologized and resigned, saying he had to protect his family in the face of death threats. His wife, Brianna, shared: “You are granting citizenship.” [sic] I appreciate it very much and expect the Jew to be honest.”

William Hendrix, who worked for the Kansas attorney general’s office, was fired.

Bobby Walker, president of the New York State Young Republicans, lost his planned spot in the campaign. Peter Giunta was impeached by a New York City councilman.

The whole thing is sickening, disgusting and sickening.

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Don’t take my word for it on this one. The Young Republican National Federation said it was “appalled by the disgusting and inexcusable language that emerged… such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and directly contrary to the values ​​our movement represents.”

New York GOP leaders voted unanimously to disband the state’s Young Republicans chapter.

But with some bold and prominent exceptions, most Republicans don’t want to talk about the chat debacle. Naturally, they are heading for a terrible scandal involving a Democratic candidate.

Meanwhile, Democrats hesitated to withdraw their support for Jay Jones, their candidate for Virginia Attorney General, after messages full of accusations and violent rhetoric were published. (Maxine Wallace/Washington Post/Getty Images)

Jay Jones, a candidate for attorney general in Virginia, was revealed by National Review to have made a violent exchange about a colleague in 2022 while they were both in the House of Representatives.

Jones dreamed of going after Todd Gilbert, then the speaker of the House of Representatives.

Gilbert “got two bullets in the head,” then Jones said the speaker wanted his children to “die in their mother’s arms.”

J.D. Vance said Jones “fantasized about killing political opponents.” “I’m sure people excited about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this deranged individual to drop out of the race. Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin did just that.”

President Trump weighed in, saying that “Radical Left Crazy Jay Jones” made “SICK and VERY SHOCKING jokes, even if they were jokes,” about the “murder of a Republican legislator, his wife, and his children.” The president called Jones an “animal” and said “everyone would be put in jail for what he said.”

Now this is all terrible and sickening and it’s getting worse.

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Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who is running for governor of Virginia, said she was “disgusted” by Jones’ remarks and issued a statement: “I made it clear to Jay that he must take full responsibility for his words. As a candidate and the next Governor of the Commonwealth, I will always condemn violent language in our politics.”

What he certainly didn’t do was withdraw his support for the man behind the “violent language.” Currently supporting Jay “two bullets” Jones. So do most Democrats, with some notable exceptions.

So both sides engage in classic “whataboutism”; insists that we direct our gaze to the abuses of the other side.

And you know very well that if the tables were turned, Democrats would condemn the “two-shot” candidate and Republicans would harshly criticize the racist and anti-Semitic group chat.

In an ideal world, both would be equally condemnable, regardless of party.

There are also questions about actual political violence, such as the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10th. (Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Conservative and anti-Trump columnist David French New York TimesHe says it’s a “twisted moral calculation” that he partly blames on Trumpism, but he acknowledges that this trend began long before DJT entered politics.

“The result is a push-pull dynamic that drives people of good character away from the party and attracts new leaders and new people who share the leader’s ethos. This cultural trend reinforces itself every year. Decency becomes rarer and decent people feel more alone…

“Meanwhile, the trolls proliferate until the radicals become mainstream and the previous mainstream remains on the sidelines.” Even the compassionate conservative George W. Bush was deemed too liberal for the Trump GOP. So did pro-immigration Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, who founded the EPA.

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And then there’s the real issue of violence in the wake of the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, not to mention the two attempts to kill Trump last year.

“Increasing criticism and increasing liberalism raise the stakes of elections to the point that almost every partisan American is more than willing to ignore almost any evil to prevent a greater evil, such as an election loss,” French said. he says.

This is the ultimate means-ends justification argument. It’s really about seizing and keeping power. Nothing else matters. And it’s disgusting.

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It’s chilling to read that the fringe is now mainstream, that nothing is more important than damning your side, your team, your ideology, the details. But that’s the world we live in now.