Give Young Republicans a Group Chat, and They’ll Make It ‘Nazi Heaven’
Seems like there might be a connection between being a college Republican and saying the worst things anyone has ever said.
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Nature abhors a vacuum. Produce a void, and matter rushes in to fill that space. Produce a lull in the conversation, and words take over for matter. And produce a space for Young Republicans to congregate, and you’ll get the very worst shit you’ve ever heard in your life, more or less immediately. That’s what we saw in horrifying detail in the fall of 2025 when publishers got hold of 2,900 pages of text messages and Telegram group chats from young Republican activists in New York, Vermont, Arizona and Kansas: An unending cesspool of extreme racism, sexism, transphobia and antisemitism, with a sprinkle of illiteracy for flavor. And it’s what we’re seeing again this week, as more or less the same exact scandal has surfaced in Florida—groups of young, college-aged Republicans reveling in the freedom of a safe space where they can use the N-word hundreds of times, call women “whores” and wax poetic on the brilliance of Hitler.
In this case, the group chat in question was created at an institutional level, by the secretary of the county Republican Party in Miami-Dade County, himself a law student at Florida International University in Miami. Abel Alexander Carvajal created the WhatsApp group chat for Republican students at the university and was officially its moderator, occasionally deleting things (and seemingly hastily deleting some of his own messages) before the content of the chat came to light when it was shared by people within it with the Miami Herald. Over the course of just a few weeks, the chat immediately devolved into a parade of slurs against Black people, Jewish people, women, and more or less anyone who seemed like they might be a fun target, with the group, among other things, boasting at how one member had driven away a black woman member of the local Republican organization by calling her a slur. In just a few weeks, the N-word was reportedly use more than 400 times, and one of the group’s members described the chat as “Nazi heaven.” To clarify: This description was a good thing in that member’s eyes.
The average 2010s hate group chat is now the average 2020s young Republican chat. It’s not even slightly more tame. This isn’t an accident. A lot of rich people spent a lot of money on building and growing far right propaganda operations.
— WhiteRoseAFA (@whiteroseafa.bsky.social) Mar 5, 2026 at 3:21 AM
It’s yet another instance of what has become a sobering narrative about young conservatives, who increasingly appear to have grown up in an irony-poisoned online world in which the last barriers of shame and political correctness have been stripped away, leaving them totally unafraid of being virulently racist or bigoted, especially when they think they’re around their own people. This tracks, no doubt, with what we wrote just yesterday about Gen Z men, where double the rate of young men believe that women should completely submit to their husband, compared with the opinion of the Boomer-aged Americans you might expect to be more backwards. It speaks to what has been characterized as a surge of regressive social opinions in the young, politically active right (especially among men), which oddly enough puts those young Republicans at odds with the more seasoned members of the Republican party, who are concerned with optics in a way that the younger kids simply aren’t. Predictably, that has resulted in the condemnation of these young Republicans by GOP elected officials in Florida, looking to distance themselves from the incredibly hateful rhetoric and slurs of the group chat. Senator Rick Scott, for instance, wrote online Thursday afternoon that the messages in the chat are “disgusting and cannot be tolerated,” saying that “racists and antisemites are not welcome in the Republican Party.” Or not welcome so visibly, anyway. Florida International University also said the chat was under criminal investigation.
Those included in this particular group chat included various Republican leaders on campus: Beyond Carvajal the county GOP secretary, there was also the chapter president of FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter and the former College Republicans recruitment chair at the college. Some of the star bigots included member William Bejerano, who at one point posted a huge block of text (later published in The Floridian) calling for dozens of forms of violence against Black people littered with the N-word, and College Republicans recruitment chair Dariel Gonzalez, who said that he would refuse “to be indoctrinated” by a “colored professor.” At one point, after Gonzalez referred to a woman as a “half breed” and “mongrel,” another member observed the obvious: “If this chat gets leaked we’re so cooked lmao.” Immediately, they confirmed how much worse it gets, with Gonzalez saying “This isn’t even my worst one.” Another replies: “I’m in a few on Telegram that are definitely worse.”
The most amazing thing about the latest GOP Nazi group chat story is that the ending is *exactly the same* as the ending of a different story by a different publication about an entirely different GOP Nazi group chat!
— Jeremy Schulman (@jeremyschulman.bsky.social) Mar 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Turning Point USA chapter president Ian Valdes indulged in some antisemitism throughout, before changing the name of the groupchat to “Gooning in Agartha.” Explaining the term “Agartha,” a mythical all-white civilization that was used in Nazi propaganda, Valdes called the place “Nazi heaven sort of, esoteric Nazism essentially.”
That was certainly not the end of the Nazi references. Valdes, speaking to another member, at one point told them that “I’m more authoritarian than you buddy, I think the church should run the government.” He criticized another member’s stated “fiscal conservatism,” saying that “fiscally conservative all the way is so gay. Hitler himself wasn’t a fiscal conservative.” Because, you know, whatever Adolf Hitler’s view on the subject was, the Turning Point USA president thinks that should probably be viewed as the logical standard. Obviously.
My favorite detail, however, is that group chat creator Carvajal, currently in the process of being banished from the Miami-Dade County Republican Party organization, told the Miami Herald that despite the fact that his own messages are all over the group chat, he actually hadn’t seen any of the slurs being thrown around in September and October until the newspaper contacted him. According to the paper, he said he was “shocked by the gruesome calls for violence against Black people,” which he was totally unaware of despite frequently participating in the chat himself.
“It’s been five months since this was sent and this is the first time I’ve seen this message,” Carvajal very plausibly said. “I guess to an extent, I bear some responsibility, cause I created a chat. But if I had seen this at the moment, I would have removed [Bejerano] from the chat. I probably would have even blocked his number. My biggest regret is that in doing that, I facilitated this kind of deranged stuff being out there. I’m at a loss of words.”
My my, it certainly is a shame that Carvajal didn’t see any of those terrible messages at the time. It’s probably also a coincidence that the Miami Herald reports that Carvajal deleted 42 of his own messages from the chat before the chat logs were obtained. No doubt they were innocuous messages, like the rest of the group chat contents.
It would be nice to think that this kind of scandal would prevent this collection of virulent young racists from ever being welcome back into American society again, but we are of course in no way that lucky. A little time away, and they’ll no doubt be right back at it, worming their way into the rotten heart of a Republican party that pays only the smallest amount of lip service to denouncing this kind of behavior, before turning tail and filling its ranks with scores of proud young Nazis. When these kids are the future of your political organization, you don’t get to distance yourself from their views. You’re the party where Hitler fetishization is the wave of the future. Better start practicing your goose step.
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