If an article regarding text messages by Young Republican members, recently revealed, was published by this paper, I could not find it. I get that the editors cannot publish every story but I am amazed that — with the current state of our country, democracy under siege, with elections upcoming — it was not worthy of coverage. 

An article in The Atlantic by George Packer, titled “The depth of MAGA’s moral collapse,” does an excellent job of assessing the reality of those text messages and, remembering that elections are about the future, should be a must read for all lovers of our democracy. Don’t be gaslit by our VP Vance who, in spite of the fact that all text participants were adults, some in their 30s, dismisses the vile expressions in the texts as done by “kids.” “Jokes.”

A passage from Mr. Packer’s article: “When leaders of Young Republican groups around the country exchange texts that say ‘I love Hitler;’ that joke about gas chambers and rape, 
approve of slavery, sneer about ‘watermelon people’ and monkeys in zoos, and throw around words like faggot and retarded, they aren’t just  exposing their own antisemitism, racism, homophobia and misogyny. To see only the varieties of bigotry with which we’re painfully familiar is to miss the depth of MAGA’s moral collapse. “

What kind of American can stand and call themselves proud Republicans?

Herb Fox
Limerick