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A high-ranking member of the right-wing youth group College Republicans of America has a history of making misogynistic, homophobic, and racist comments on his personal livestreams, according to a new report in The Guardian.

Kai Schwemmer, who was newly appointed as the political director of the College Republicans of America, made the statements, in addition to spouting some extremely far-right rhetoric on issues such as abortion, according to the outlet, which reviewed his livestreams, many of which are behind a paywall.

While reviewing his streams on the platform Gumroad, the Guardian found that some of Schwemmer’s bigoted rhetoric was aimed at gay men.

In January 2023, while reacting to a Time magazine story about fitness culture and the reasons gay men took the gym during the early days of the AIDS crisis, Schwemmer said: “Once again, gay men trying to take over straight male spaces. Gay men have been trying to subvert the gym. Do not let them do it.” He added: “They’ve been weaponizing it. They’ve been weaponizing it to give you AIDS. People are going to think this is an own on lifters. No, no, no. This is an indictment of gay people.”

Schwemmer’s comments are part of a package of racist, sexist, and antisemitic comments that he made both on his stream and on appearances on other since-archived YouTube shows, the Guardian uncovered. While on stream, he also said that he would accept a world where “abortion is banned and slavery is legal” and says he is “very much an anti universal suffrage guy.” He also cheered a DNA test that proved he held no Jewish ancestry.

The Guardian noted that Schwemmer’s comments were made after having gone on a two-year Mormon mission to Argentina, which he said prompted a “process of growth” that led him to no longer hold the racist and bigoted beliefs he previously harbored.

The Guardian also reviewed footage of his appearance on a now-archived episode of the YouTube channel Modern Day Debate from July 2025, in which he said that a 15-year-old who was sexually assaulted should be forced to carry to term. This platform is where he made his comment saying he would accept a society where “abortion is banned and slavery is legal”and indicated that he is in favor of “family voting,” a Christian nationalist ideology that would allow men to vote as the head of a household, voting for their wives and children.

In the same debate, Schwemmer said he was anti-gay marriage and “in favor of repealing same-sex marriage protections.”

Schwemmer and the College Republicans of America did not respond to the Guardian’s requests for comment.

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Jeff Tischauser, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, told the Guardian that he had been monitoring Schwemmer since 2022, given his association with far-right figure Nick Fuentes. (He previously identified as part of Fuentes’ “groyper” movement and streamed on Fuentes’s platform Cozy.tv, according to the report.)

“Any time someone claims they have left the movement, you need to watch them closely to see if their actions match their rhetoric, and if they are being sincere,” Tischauser told the Guardian. “It does not seem like Kai Schwemmer is being sincere.”

Ben Lorber, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, echoed Tischauser and said that he was following Fuentes’ playbook.

“Essentially, he’s trying to do exactly what Nick Fuentes has always called on his followers to do: to participate in Republican politics and to downplay their more extreme views,” he told the Guardian. He added, “Fuentes is fine with people like Kai Schwemmer disavowing him, even though Schwemmer is walking a fine line. I’ve never heard him directly condemn Nick Fuentes.”

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