Maryland College Republicans hosting White Supremacist
The once respected and effective College Republicans have been reduced to this?
The Maryland College Republicans have invited an unrepentant white supremacist to speak at an upcoming event.
The organization announced that Jared Taylor will be speaking at an organizational event at Salisbury University for an event entitled “Can The American Race Problem Be Solved?”
Jared Taylor is a white nationalist who has spent four decades convincing credulous journalists that he's something more sophisticated than what he is. Yale-educated, fluent in Japanese, a man who wears a tie to his race science conferences. He founded American Renaissance in 1990 as a genteel vehicle for the view that Black and brown people are, by genetics, inferior to whites, and followed it up with The Color of Crime. a booklet dressing up crime statistics as proof of Black criminality that became, predictably, a staple in white supremacist circles. His biennial conferences are suit-and-tie affairs where neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, Klansmen, and eugenicists network over canapés. Former Grand Wizards of the KKK Don Black and David Duke have been regulars. Richard Spencer used the American Renaissance stage in 2013 to call for a white ethnostate. Taylor also mentored fellow white nationalist Nick Fuentes early, platformed him at the 2018 conference, and showed up to sign books for the next generation of white supremacists at AFPAC in 2022.
The Republican relationship is the part that should embarrass people more than it does. Taylor's ideas didn't stay quarantined on the fringes — they trickled up. After Trump's 2016 win, Taylor called it Trump's "great achievement, to have been the standard bearer, even if unconsciously, of white interests." The College Republicans United chapter at Arizona State University invited him to campus in 2024, and that same group had previously allied with sitting Republican congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar. Nobody made them do that. The veneer of intellectual respectability is the whole point.
Taylor understood early that the same poison moves faster in a clean glass. Nevertheless, his Twitter feed is full of racist tweets that a person of good faith would never think, much less share publicly.
Now the Maryland College Republicans, led by 6’9” muppet-looking Fuentes wannabe Colin McEvers, are platforming Taylor for no particular reason other than McEvers is a gratuitous attention seeker who, seemingly, shares Taylor's racist views. McEvers, often found wearing ill-fitting suits, fancies himself as a “journalist” and can usually be found on social media espousing alt-right nonsense, often with a racial tinge.
Clearly, McEvers is comfortable enough with Taylor’s blatant racism to platform him under the Maryland College Republicans banner and give him his personal imprimatur.
This creates a whole series of problems for so many people in the Maryland Republican ecosystem:
The Maryland College Republicans: The once respected and effective College Republicans have been reduced to this?
Anne Arundel Republican Central Committee: McEvers is running unopposed for the Anne Arundel Republican Central Committee this year. For the Anne Arundel GOP, that means that one of their members is in bed with unrepentant white supremacists.
Maryland Republican Party: As Chairman of the College Republicans, McEvers sits as an Executive Committee member of the State Party. That means a member of State Republican leadership is hosting a white supremacist for an event, which is bad news and bad press for the entire Maryland GOP Apparatus.
Nicolee Ambrose and Adam Wood: They decided that McEvers should be Maryland Republican Party youth of the year, making McEvers and his problems representative of the youth of the GOP.
McEvers accepting the Outstanding Maryland Republican Youth award from Nicolee Ambrose and Adam Wood 
Wood (as Santa Claus) with another Republican, McEvers, and Nicolee Ambrose at Ambrose’s Home Maryland Young Republicans: In addition to his role as Maryland College Republican Chair, McEvers serves as Chairman of the Lower Shore Young Republicans. This is not going to help the Maryland YRs recent efforts to raise money, nor is it going to help shed the negative image the YRs gained last year.
House Republican Caucus: This guy running as a Republican candidate for the House of Delegates is an albatross around the neck of every Republican running for the House of Delegates.
College Republicans national organization (s): To be fair, there’s at least four of them now and I have no idea which group Maryland belongs to. But the national College Republicans are practically a dead letter at this point.
Dan Cox: Cox likes McEvers and shares his videos as a source of “reliable” reporting.
What makes this event even dumber is the fact that McEvers himself is running for the House of Delegates in District 32. McEvers is platforming white supremacists and espousing white supremacist views, but is running in a House district that is 57 percent minority in composition.
That math don't math if McEvers plans on being a serious candidate, though his invitation to Taylor tells us a lot about that.
Look, when people tell you who they are, believe them. That Taylor was invited to speak anywhere speaks volumes about the person who issued the invitation and the organization that is hosting him. The actions speak for themselves.