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Republicans must save the future of conservatism from young wannabe edgelords

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Young conservatives have a bigotry problem — and everyone on the right has a responsibility to reckon with it.

Nicholas Rafael, the now-suspended treasurer of the New York Young Republican Club, has been linked to an X account — @basedredford — from which he allegedly sent out all sorts of bigoted and antisemitic messages.

His is just one of dozens of scandals rocking the young conservative world, which has been taken over by “edgelords” who say the most offensive things possible for sport. They are a danger to the Republican party and to America’s social fabric — and conservatives of all ages have a responsibility to condemn their behavior.

Rafael isn’t the only bad apple to come out of the NYYRC. In November, its former vice president Vish Burra was fired as a producer at One America News for posting an AI-generated video depicting Jews as “scheming” cockroaches counting money in a dark room.

According to reporting from New York Magazine, Rafael operated an anonymous X account which called Texas Senator Ted Cruz an “Israel first goy slave” and declared, “It’s literally a historic FACT that your society will thrive when you kick the Jews out of town.”

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