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The Washington Post published a report Thursday revealing the shocking-but-not-all-that-surprising news of yet another young Republican political operative posting Nazi and Ku Klux Klan-related content to social media. Preston Parra, 24, according to the Post, interned for Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., for two months in 2024 "before working as a contractor for his leadership PAC the next year."
Being confronted with former and active staffers' Nazi connections has become a recurring story for Collins, the GOP nominee for a crucial Senate seat in a purple state. But this isn't an issue exclusive to Collins. In the era of President Donald Trump, the right has nurtured a culture of online trolling that deliberately blurs the line between identity-based hatred and edgelord "comedy," using the latter to provide cover for the former.
In May, Slate's Ben Jacobs reported that Collins' then-chief of staff, Kip Talley, was part of a group chat that included notorious white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. In that chat, Talley bragged about using "the levers of the legislative branch" and "reaching out to my people at FBI and DOJ" to try to get the racist, Holocaust-denying MAGA activist Charles Johnson released from prison. Talley told Slate, "I acted solely in my personal capacity" and "did not act at the direction of Rep. Collins" or "use official resources."
Then there was the 2025 revelation in Politico of Young Republicans' outrageously bigoted group chats. Vance urged anyone offended by the racist, antisemitic, misogynist messages to "grow up" and not to "focus on what kids say in group chats," like "edgy, offensive jokes." The group chat's participants were age 24 to 35, including a MAGA lawyer who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Just a few months later, the Miami Herald reported on another racist, antisemitic MAGA group chat featuring young conservative activist leaders — including a campus chapter president of the Charlie Kirk co-founded organization Turning Point USA — posting hateful, violent, fascist rhetoric.
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Being confronted with former and active staffers' Nazi connections has become a recurring story for Collins, the GOP nominee for a crucial Senate seat in a purple state. But this isn't an issue exclusive to Collins. In the era of President Donald Trump, the right has nurtured a culture of online trolling that deliberately blurs the line between identity-based hatred and edgelord "comedy," using the latter to provide cover for the former.
In May, Slate's Ben Jacobs reported that Collins' then-chief of staff, Kip Talley, was part of a group chat that included notorious white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. In that chat, Talley bragged about using "the levers of the legislative branch" and "reaching out to my people at FBI and DOJ" to try to get the racist, Holocaust-denying MAGA activist Charles Johnson released from prison. Talley told Slate, "I acted solely in my personal capacity" and "did not act at the direction of Rep. Collins" or "use official resources."
Then there was the 2025 revelation in Politico of Young Republicans' outrageously bigoted group chats. Vance urged anyone offended by the racist, antisemitic, misogynist messages to "grow up" and not to "focus on what kids say in group chats," like "edgy, offensive jokes." The group chat's participants were age 24 to 35, including a MAGA lawyer who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Just a few months later, the Miami Herald reported on another racist, antisemitic MAGA group chat featuring young conservative activist leaders — including a campus chapter president of the Charlie Kirk co-founded organization Turning Point USA — posting hateful, violent, fascist rhetoric.
Trump normalized gutter racism. Now the GOP has a young-Nazi problem.
A 24-year-old former staffer to Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins posted a bunch of unambiguously racist content. This keeps happening to Republicans.
