What Young Republicans really think

Politico obtained messages between leaders of Young Republicans groups across the country. If their true feelings are representative of the group as a whole, many or most of these Republicans are bigots, racists, admirers of Hitler, anti-Semites, and/or arrogant, insulting thugs. 

These fine young adults called black people monkeys and “the watermelon people”. They mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping enemies and driving them to suicide. They lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh” many times in his chat comments. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, called rape “epic”. Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, wrote that everyone that votes no about whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation “is going to the gas chamber”.

Those sentiments come from future GOP leaders and activists. That says everything a person needs to know about the mindsets of MAGA insiders. These people are not normal. They are not democrats. They are cynical, cruel authoritarians. They think killing, raping and psychologically torturing people is funny.

Expressions of his kind of moral rot presumably go in in secret all the time among many or most MAGA elites. Their actions are in accord with this filth. However, they are smart enough to not get caught revealing what they really think.

Yes, most of the MAGA rank and file Trump voters will vehemently distance themselves from those sentiments. But those are the people who created this with their votes. They asked for Trump and this is just one little part of the sleaze, corruption and moral rot that he is forcing on us. 

Given MAGA's track record of moral rot, mendacity, corruption, cruelty, etc., it is reasonable, fair and balanced to think that all MAGA elites feel more or less about the same as what most of those Young Republicans expressed in secret. 

Of course, that assessment could be wrong. Maybe most MAGA elites really do not share those Young Republican beliefs and sentiments. In that case, the burden of proof is on them to prove it.  The burden sure as hell is not on any of us in the opposition to prove their good intentions and good will. Their words and actions clearly express bad intentions and ill-will. 

Q: Is tarring MAGA elites with those viciously cruel Young Republican sentiments reasonable, fair and balanced or not? Who has the burden of proof one way or the other, us or them?

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I presume that engagement here has dropped off to almost nothing mostly because, (1) from a pro-democracy, -rule of law, -civil-liberties, -truth, -civility and -rationality point of the news is constantly bad, discouraging, horrific, insulting and/or otherwise too unpleasant to deal with and stay feeling reasonably happy and positive, (2) prose is too pedantic or complicated, (3) something else, or (4) some combination of those.  

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Reasons to be very angry at Trump voters

This 2:44 video expresses reasonable sentiments provoked by the unwarranted, unjustifiable MAGA attacks that MAGA voters damned all of us to experience. This woman is definitely not sympathetic to harms caused to people who voted for Trump. She makes a slew of good points.

@bella_vandala

♬ original sound - Bella Vandala

Hm, the embed code doesn't work. Bummer. Oh well, the link to the TikTok video works.

MAGA update: MAGA's two-tiered law system

Hitler's two-tiered legal system 

Mother Jones writes about the collapse of the USSC as a pro-democracy institution and its reincarnation as a major source of power driving the rise of a kleptocratic American dictatorship. In a lawsuit filed last January days after Trump signed an EO that denied birthright citizenship, the USSC completely side stepped the issue. Instead, it gutted all of the power that federal judges had to issue nationwide injunctions against illegal actions by Trump and MAGA elites. That decision was out of the blue. Birthright citizenship is clearly specified in the constitution, so Trump's EO was equally clearly unconstitutional.

In her dissent, judge Jackson accused the majority of establishing a two-tiered justice system: One was for the dictator and often wealthy or powerful elite allies. The other was for people targeted by the president’s illegal actions and whims. Jackson wrote: “The law-free zone that results from this Court’s near elimination of universal injunctions is not an unfamiliar archetype”. She called the decision “eerily echoing history’s horrors .... the zone of lawlessness the majority has now authorized will disproportionately impact the poor, the uneducated, and the unpopular.”

In her dissent, Jackson included a footnote citing Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who chronicled the transformation of the German legal system under Hitler. Fraenkel escaped Germany, came to the US and published a book in 1941, The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship. Long article summarized: A dictator like Hitler exercised unfettered power while life for most ordinary people are usually unaffected. Jackson commented that a “zone of lawlessness” like what the USSC created will swallow targeted people, leaving the rest to go about their normal lives and subject to laws. In other words, Hitler was above the law and did what he wanted whether it was legal or not. 

The most important injection of vitality into the dictator's two-tiered system was the MAGA USSC's 2024 decision in Trump v. US that immunized presidents (i.e., Trump) against prosecution for crimes he commits while in office. When coupled with unlimited presidential pardon power, we clearly have two-tied system of law. So here we have yet another non-trivial parallel between Trump and Hitler.

Q: About what % of voters generally, MAGA-Trump voters, and people in the MSM are solidly aware of how much wealth and power, especially institutional capture and subversion, has been transferred from average citizens to MAGA's corrupt authoritarianism, Trump and MAGA elites?*

* My estimates: ~15% of voters generally, ~2% of MAGA-Trump voters, and ~ 20% people in the MSM. 

Note: After deep dives touching on cognitive biology, institutional capture, MAGA's authoritarian tactics and policy, and etc., Pxy came to generally agree with those estimates. The full Q&A set is at this link. Most voters, especially Trump voters, and the MSM are just flat out ignorant. They cannot see the danger. They do not sense the vast flow of wealth and power from themselves to MAGA-allied elites. And, the MSM does F-level (failing) work in informing the public. Some of the few people who see the danger, but are socially or economically trapped and powerless to oppose. Plenty of evidence in the public record supports all of those assertions. .... Ignorance of how much wealth and power we have lost and how much more we will lose is literally killing us and our democracy, rule of law and civil liberties.

2nd note: The situation is deeply frustrating. This post started out to be about 6 bits. But each time the writing starts, questions pop up and the answers lead to new questions, and so forth. So instead of 6 bits, this wound up being 1 chunk. There is so much more to chronicle, but TL/TC/DR keeps getting in the way.

TC = too complicated