“I’ve Had It” podcast host Jennifer Welch and ex-Trump official Miles Taylor did not hold back their criticism of Vice President JD Vance’s response to abhorrent messages reportedly sent between leaders of the Young Republicans. “These guys like JD Vance are grooming young men in the Republican Party,” Taylor told Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s “All In” Wednesday. “They are grooming them for cruelty. They are raising these weak little loser incels to go attack people who are weaker, to go attack people because of their race, to go attack people because of their religion.”The GOP is facing public scrutiny this week after Politico uncovered racist and otherwise offensive Telegram messages among leaders in the Young Republicans organization. In the group chat, participants allegedly called rape “epic,” casually praised Adolf Hitler, and threw around insulting remarks about Black, Jewish and Indian people, among others.Vance responded to the controversy by stating he refused “to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” deflecting to unrelated messages from a Democrat leaked in 2022. He then doubled down on his response, saying, “Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.”The Young Republican National Federation includes people ages 18 to 40. Peter Giunta, the now-ex-chair of the New York state chapter who reportedly sent the infamous “I love Hitler” message, is in his 30s.Welch told Hayes that Vance, who called President Donald Trump “America’s Hitler” in 2016 but now demands people stop using “Nazi” as an insult, has “regressed.”She noted that Vance is married to Usha Vance, “a woman of Indian descent” with whom he shares biracial children, and posed a question for MAGA voters.“If this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you or anything to do with you?” Welch asked.Vance acknowledged white supremacist attacks aimed at his wife over her Indian descent during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, but his lukewarm defense of his family drew criticism.Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance.ALEX WROBLEWSKI via Getty Images“Obviously, she’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused — attacked — by some white supremacists over that,” Vance said at the time. “But I just — I love Usha. She’s such a good mom, she’s such a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of her.”Welch told Hayes that the vice president and those around Trump “morally collapse” the moment they “capitulate” to the president.“Everybody that comes into his orbit becomes a worse person,” Welch said. “Marco Rubio, JD Vance. I think Stephen Miller was probably born terrible, but he’s gotten worse, and that’s how low that bar was.” The podcaster said the “moral rot on display” is intentional, claiming Trump officials are “flexing the authoritarian muscle, and they all have to make up for something, because the strong man is frail.”“The strong man has cankles, he’s got bruises on his hands, he’s got dementia,” Welch said. “So now his acolytes are coming out, acting like big tough guys to try to keep the facade up because there are fissures all over the place in the MAGA movement right now.” Taylor argued that the right-wing extremists have pushed out other Republicans, such as himself, who are the “rational faction” of the party. “I mean, the population is dwindling so that rational Republicans are now a completely endangered species at the risk of becoming extinct,” Taylor said.