You can learn a lot about people by what’s in their group chats. In the case of leaked messages from some young Republicans, as reported by Politico, Rick Wilson says the leaders were revealed as “racist Hitler stans and misogynist dickweeds.” Molly Jong-Fast notes that these are supposedly the “normies” or relatively moderate figures in the Republican Party, making the extremism particularly alarming.
So is Trump planning to run again in 2028? He already has the merch. Molly and Rick agree that he wants to keep running his government as a business scam that has earned his family “billions in excess.”
Trump also prefers weak running mates and allies (think J.D. Vance or Mike Pence) who won’t be able to harness MAGA’s seething energy to replace him. So who’s the biggest threat to trump? Molly and Rick believe that’s none other than RFK Jr. because he’s the only figure in that circle who has his own fervent cult. And he’s not simply trying to “out-trump Trump” by being an “extremist dipshit.”
And hey, let’s welcome Molly to Substack! We need more voices in independent journalism now more than ever.
