On Tuesday, Politico reporters Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo published a story based on thousands of leaked messages from a group chat populated by young Republican activists:
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
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.
Other racist and antisemitic far-right commentators were quick to applaud and defend these views, and to praise Vice President J.D. Vance for downplaying the comments.
On Tuesday night, Nick Fuentes—the Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic, Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist who once dined with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago—cited the Politico story as evidence that those who share his views are now embedded not only throughout the right-wing movement but within the Republican establishment as well.
"Everyone's a groyper now," Fuentes said, using the term by which his followers are known. "I don't even know these people. I've never met these people. I don't know that they identify as groypers—I don't believe they talked about me; if they did, I'm sure it'd be in here—but it just goes to show, this is the mood of my generation. This is the mood, this is the zeitgeist of the under 25, under 30 crowd, especially for white men. It's just where they are."
Fuentes then tied the Politico story to something he said last week about the need for his followers to infiltrate all the power structures in society as part of a long-term plan to rise through the ranks and ultimately take control.
This is happening, Fuentes said, but those who are now on the inside need to practice better operational security to hide their true views and intentions.
"This is why I tell people, 'Hide your power level,'" Fuentes stated. "You're not hiding your power level if you're in a group chat with hundreds of people saying we're gonna put people in gas chambers, okay guys? Now I know it's funny and I joke around like that on my show and I'm very cavalier about it and maybe I'm setting a bad example. But if you are in the Young Republicans, and I'm speaking to you, if you're in College Republicans, if you are in the administration, if you're in a high position, you can't be putting this in writing."
"If you're going to hide your power level, if you're going to be a ninja, you can't be blasting off with all this kind of stuff in a giant group chat in writing with your real face," he added. "That's not good OPSEC. It's not a good idea. You can't do it."
"These guys were doing a great thing," Fuentes declared. "These guys [are] not woke, they're based, and they're doing what they're supposed to be. They're rising up in the party leadership. They're rising up in the government. The mistake that they made is that they were sloppy."
