Man, this week has not been a good one for the GOP’s PR department, has it? In a shocking-yet-not-shocking turn of events, journalists from Politico managed to leak chats from the Young Republicans private chatroom. What was uncovered sent a shockwave throughout the net.

Young Republican group members were caught saying absolutely horrific things, including:

Yeah…If that sounds fascist to you, that’s because it is. That’s precisely what Nazis were saying back in the 1940s. This is one of those moments where it should be abundantly clear who became the bad guys, right?

Wondering who said what? Don’t worry. A list of the people who said it including representatives from areas you might not expect to see, including New York state and Vermont.

If you’re like a lot of people, you might be wondering how I could call the GOP Nazis when there are several major operatives who are part of the LGBT community. Well, the members of the Young Republicans group are a good illustration of this.

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from studying fascism, it’s that there are multiple “flavors” of fascists. Many of these flavors tend to contradict the overall message of the movement — as in, some groups are composed of folks who hope to be “one of the good ones.”

The leaked groups also showed this pretty well. Along with private DMs, there were subgroups like the “A-Gays,” who were gay politicians who just so happened to be affiliated with the GOP. 

The Advocate noted that some of the Young Republican members already had positions that gave them serious power: 

The A-Gays are said to be some of the most powerful gay men in Capitol Hill. But they also don’t recognize something: they are still considered to be undesirables in their own party. The leaked chats show others using their sexuality as a slur. 

Let’s just be real for a minute.

The GOP made it clear that they intend on pushing the A-Gays and their allies out of the party the moment they are no longer useful. Such is the nature of fascism—an ever-shrinking circle of “acceptable” people, a movement where being “one of the good ones” just means you’re last to the chopping block.

Republican voters are not well-liked among the LGBT community for obvious reasons. And yet, some of the very people saying the most vile things about others don’t seem to realize why they can’t seem to get a date.

The fact that there are still LGBT people voting for the GOP is just proof that they’re deluding themselves. Anyone who is LGBT and has common sense sees it. This most recent scandal just further seals the point.

I still think A-Gays genuinely believe that they can gloss over and whitewash the hate their party brings to the table. Now that people have read what they sound like when the world isn’t watching, it’s going to be hard to explain all that away.

As one would expect, there have been representatives calling this “character assassination” and claiming that they are “appalled” by the language used in the chat. Even Republicans have railed against it — at least for show. 

Democrats, being total wusses, just asked that the people who said that step down. Honestly, this is something that they should be using as part of an election campaign: guessing whether a high-ranking Nazi said it or a member of the Young Republican group. 

Truth be told, the two groups are basically one and the same. It’s been that way for a while. After all, their slogan, “America First,” was quite literally taken for the Nazi playbook. 

Not quite. This is another mask-off moment for the GOP. This is what the GOP stands for and sadly, they’ve been very good at convincing people otherwise. 

Truth be told, the writing has been on the wall for ages: the GOP is a Nazi organization. As The Advocate recently wrote, “The future of the Republican Party is unabated Nazism.”

The signs were there. We all saw the same dog-whistles. We all noticed that all the neo-Nazis in recent years seem to vote for the same party. For a while, politicians and PR spokespeople could sugarcoat their message and make it seem palatable. 

In the past, you could argue that you voted Republican because you wanted to lower your taxes. Or you could argue that you were really worried about an increase in gang activity or something. 

Now, you can’t argue that anymore.

If you read those texts, watch GOP members doing Roman salutes to crowds, and watch videos of ICE storming cities and still vote Republican, we know it’s not about taxes or crime. 

We know why you voted the way you did. You voted GOP because you are okay with human beings being culled by a dictatorship. You voted that way because you don’t care about human rights. If you voted GOP, you voted for the American Nazi Party.

Here. Lemme help nip that in the bud.

If you don’t like being called a Nazi, don’t act like one. Don’t vote for fascists, don’t side with fascists, don’t say hateful shit, and don’t get butthurt when people use their freedom of speech to call you out on your bullshit.

You don’t get to cry about people calling you names when you side with a group of people who want to kill dissidents, put them in gas chambers, and rape women. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should ask yourself why you’re okay with that affiliation instead of bitching to others.