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Shocking. Disgusting. Vile. Antisemitic. Appalling. Inexcusable. Hateful.

Those are just some of the adjectives used by Republicans to describe the racist, sexist and violent contents of a leaked group chat involving leaders of nationwide Young Republican organizations, as described in a bombshell report last week by Politico. (Democrats used all those adjectives and more.)

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Many GOP officials — among them New York state party chair Ed Cox and U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik — stampeded to denounce the participants in the Telegram group chat; on Friday, state party leaders voted unanimously to disband the organization. But others remained more sanguine: Vice President JD Vance, for example, seemed to be........

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