A conservative who co-founded the Lincoln Project is sounding the alarm that the appallingly racist group chat between young GOP operatives is more than just a one-off.

The Telegram chat, in which Republican operatives flippantly spoke of gas chambers, typed “I love Hitler,” and referred to Black people as “the watermelon people,” shows that much of the young MAGA base is “absolutely irredeemable,” says Steve Schmidt.

“There are no words to describe the sickness revealed by these young people’s texts,” he said on his podcast, The Warning, on Wednesday.

Schmidt, 55, is a traditional Republican who worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. He co-founded the Lincoln Project in 2019 to counter MAGA’s takeover of Republican politics, and later founded the Save

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