Chats from young Republicans revealed recently by Politico expose a dark streak of the conservative movement that should bother anyone concerned with the future of the GOP.

The more than 28,000 Telegram messages from a group chat of Young Republicans, made up of a dozen Gen Z and millennial activists, contain blatant racism and language that, even for the internet, is over-the-top malicious and vile.

They reveal a disturbing way of thinking within a younger, newer, and hard-to-manage part of the GOP that sees the world and those with whom they disagree as undeserving of basic decency.

The texts are nasty and should be easy to denounce. The fact that some Republican leaders are struggling to do so is a problem.

These 20- and 30-something political operatives, some of whom work in govern

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