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DDonald Trump and JD Vance are back down on an issue Even many of his own supporters argue that what derailed his first term in the White House after just a few months: racism.
Even as his party was waging a messaging war over the government shutdown and the president was on a victory lap over his Israel-Hamas peace plan, Trumpworld this week featured several conversations about the Republican Party’s issues of racism and expressions of support for violence, which MAGA wants to foist on the left as a whole.
Donald Trump himself took a one-two punch of fixing the GOP’s negative image on Wednesday when he highlighted the extreme anti-immigrant views of one of his closest advisers while praising a Confederate leader. The latter moment was seen as a Charlottesville-esque dogwhistle Far right in the eyes of many of Trump’s critics.
For Vice President Vance, this meant defending pro-Nazi rhetoric, anti-Black rhetoric, and explicit calls for violence and death. Leaked Young Republican chat logs rock Washington And Capitol Hill is like a sewage leak this week.
are responding A politico Article In which exposed hundreds of examples of racist slurs for Black people, homophobic slurs for LGBTQ+ people and the bottomless reservoir of sadness, violence and anger that apparently dominates the conversation among some prominent young conservative activists, Vance previously claimed that a message sent by a Democrat running for Attorney General in Virginia was directed at Republicans and their families. The cold acceptance of violence expressed was very bad.
Vance wrote in response to the Young Republicans’ chat outrage, “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become AG of Virginia. I refuse to engage in pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.”
By comparison, in group chats, members of some of the country’s most prominent youth Republican groups – organizations that activate Republican campaigns, congressional offices, and state legislators (and who range in age from 18 to 40) – repeatedly said they wanted to see the mass murder of their political enemies and made comments about putting people in gas chambers.
Unlike Vance, other prominent Republicans – such as House Speaker Mike Johnson – unequivocally condemned the texts. But they still came across as unforced-error distractions at a time when the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying to refocus the narrative.
And this is the kind of “ironic” racism that has long been prevalent in circles of the young conservative right, the most famous example of which is Nick Fuentes and his “Groepper” faction. Long considered persona non grata at the CPAC and Turning Point USA conferences, young conservatives in College Republican and Young Republican circles have been warning for years about the growing influence of such extreme online shock-value racism and sexism in such groups.
This week it seemed as if that faction of the far right was gaining real purchase in Washington.
As if that wasn’t enough, Trump, at a White House event on Wednesday, appeared to joke that his senior aide Stephen Miller had views that weren’t exactly a good fit for most Americans.
“I’d like to thank Stephen Miller, who’s back right there in the audience. I’d love to welcome him [come up]I like watching him on television. I would love for him to come out and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his true feelings. “Maybe that’s going a little too far,” Trump quipped.
On the same day that he joked about the “true feelings” of his mass deportation architect, Trump gave a completely unprovoked shout-out to a figure of absolute racial outrage in American society: Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
announcing this A room full of some of the country’s biggest business leaders “Would be fine” With a statue of Lee in Washington, The president said it “would have been fine for me” to honor the man who led a war against the U.S. government and sought to break the Union to protect the perceived right of the separate states to continue the institution of human slavery of black people.
Meanwhile, at the State Department, officials are continuing to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a weapon against visa holders Posted a thread on This week it is being celebrated as the revocation of the status of several foreign nationals, who have not been identified by name, posted messages on social media describing Kirk as racist and misogynistic after his death. Not to threaten violence against them – just for daring to criticize their actions.
Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead by a sniper while speaking at Utah Valley University last month, prompting a furious effort by the right to press charges against Americans, public officials and private citizens alike, who denounced Kirk and his views after his assassination.
Even Congress cannot escape this crisis.
Johnson held a press conference on Thursday to mark the 16th day of the federal government shutdown Endangered pay for members of the armed services And thousands of federal employees were furloughed as a result. Thousands more people were targeted in retaliation By the White House and the Office of Management and Budget Reduction in force (retrenchment) initiative.
Instead, many of the questions asked of Johnson Thursday morning focused not only on the Nazi-loving texts exposed by Politico, but also on the discovery of an image that depicted an American flag with the stripes rearranged. A swastika in the office of a Republican congressman.
The image, seen on the wall of an employee’s cubicle during a virtual meeting, was found inside the office of Dave Taylor, a congressman from Ohio. Taylor called Capitol Police “immediately,” he said. politicoOn learning about the image. But responsibility for the image mounted on the wall of a chamber in his office has not been established.
“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a hateful and extremely inappropriate symbol that was held by an employee in my office,” Taylor said. “The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or my own, and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Although it never gave much pause to many in Trump’s inner circle, this type of conversation has always given congressional Republicans migraines. During Trump’s first term, Republicans on the Hill were known for dodging reporters in hallways and elevators, and generally refusing to answer questions about issues such as Charlottesville and the president’s comments about “s***hole countries” in Africa and the Caribbean.
Johnson and Thune don’t have that luxury. They are stuck in front of the cameras, both because they are in the majority and because of their ongoing efforts to “win” the messaging war on Democrats over the government shutdown.
And they are inextricably linked to Trump – and his rhetoric.