The US Right Can’t Stop Outing Themselves As Nazis
From Elon Musk to the Young Republicans, everyone seems to admit they're Nazis
Written by Dominick Skinner | 16 October 2025
We keep hearing that calling the American right fascist is an exaggeration, or unnecessary, or even that calling your political enemies fascists doesn’t make them fascists. Then the American right open their mouths or their group chats and remind everyone that it is not an exaggeration at all. The Young Republicans were not just making racist jokes, there is no humour in gas chamber fantasies, not for Hitler, and not for American fans of Hitler. Dozens of Republican youth leaders from across the country traded Nazi memes, praised Hitler by name, and used the number “1488” so casually that you can see how experienced they are with this rhetoric. This is not a fringe online group, these were people holding party roles and working on campaigns, and people who will be the very future of the Republican Party.
The Nazi rhetoric is not new for anyone paying attention. Trump’s second term began with Nazi salutes, and countless US Republicans have outed themselves as Nazis since the day when Elon Musk showed the historical evil that lives under his veil of electric cars and sustainability.
A Republican staffer working for Ron DeSantis was caught producing a campaign video featuring a black sun symbol, one of the most well-known Nazi emblems. He was fired only after it became public. Then a sitting congressman, Dave Taylor of Ohio, appeared in a video meeting with a flag hanging behind him that had a swastika stitched into its pattern. This desecration of the US flag should have resulted in a one year prison sentence, according to Donald Trump’s executive order, but somehow, installing a Nazi symbol on the US flag seems to be given an exception, based on the rule’s lack of implementation.
Senator Bernie Moreno called Chuck Schumer “Führer” on the Senate floor, Schumer is a Jewish man. Republican candidate Mark Robinson was revealed to have called himself a “black Nazi” in old online posts, and has used the phrase “Peeping Toms,” despite the problematic nature of the phrase to black Americans. Steve Bannon was filmed at CPAC performing a Nazi salute, following in Hitler and Elon’s footsteps. This is no coincidence, it is pattern where the people they are behind the scenes bleed into the public light.
In the case of Elon Musk, the billionaire who calls himself a free speech absolutist while flirting with every authoritarian symbol he can find, he has made himself a uniform of fascist dogwhistling. He made a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration and managed to draw condemnation across the World, but the right wing in the USA were quick to defend his racism. He went on to defend Germany’s far-right AfD party and told the crowd that Germans should “move beyond” their guilt over the Holocaust, the darkest moment in German history. His AI chatbot Grok went online soon after and began generating posts praising Hitler, calling itself MechaHitler, and making antisemitic jokes, Musk claimed it was a glitch, coincidences like this are not plausible however. Later, in a podcast, Elon said that you cannot be called a Nazi if you are not committing genocide.
It is all part of the same cultural rot. The Republican right keeps pretending that Nazi references are ironic, edgy, or meant to trigger liberals. But the pattern is too clear to mistake for trolling, these people are not mocking fascism, they are flirting with it, normalizing it, and sometimes embracing it outright. The more they do it, the less backlash they face. The normalisation of this can only be blamed on the US media, who have allowed that normalisation to take place.
They want to convince the public that calling them Nazis is hyperbolic, while they praise the Nazis in their group chats. They are telling the world exactly who they are, Nazis. They like the shock value, the hierarchy, the purity myth, and the violence behind it. They wave Nazi flags and post Hitler memes because they understand what those symbols represent. It is admiration for one of the most despicable and disgusting political entities the world has ever seen.
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When they go from this Nazi praise to go on and praise the illegal kidnapping of black Americans by ICE, or purchase the voting machines, or gerrymander more seats for themselves, that Nazi praise turns into fascistic action. Fascism has become the ruling authority in the USA, and those behind it aren’t hiding it, the media is. The lack of alarm from the US media shows the increasing grip that the Trump regime has over American media, a grip that mirrors the very Nazis praised by members of the US right.
The American right is not drifting toward fascism. It is already there, and they are comfortable in their fascism. The media can keep pretending that these are isolated incidents, but the pattern keeps growing louder. Every time they claim it was a joke, another symbol appears, another salute is made, another chat leaks, and another mask falls away. The truth is simple, they are not being outed, they are outing themselves.