Vice signaling is the new virtue signaling.

It was revealed this week that, in a private group chat, leaders of Young Republicans groups — including the then chair and vice-chair of the New York organization, as well as a vice-chair from Kansas — called black people monkeys, praised Hitler, and discussed raping their enemies and driving them to suicide.

It’s all apparently supposed to be funny — you guys are in on the joke, right? — and meant to prove loyalty. If you’re one of us, they’re implying, you’d never rat.

But it’s abhorrent and fits right into a concerning mounting trend on the right. 6

Vice signaling is a backlash response to the left’s smug virtue signaling, the performative and exclusionary trend of going to fashionable protests (pics or it didn’t happen), using ove

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