New York’s right-wing social scene is determined to keep the party going

To his credit, the New York Young Republican Club’s designated elections guy started strong.

“Your Republican leaders have failed you!” Mario Nicoletto, 25, the campaign committee chairman for the tri-state area’s biggest and loudest conservative youth group, thundered from a lectern dragged out into the middle of the club’s living room — a cozy space stuffed with leather couches and framed photos of the slain activist Charlie Kirk. “The boomers, the millennials, the Gen X, the folks in D.C. who do not care about us — they have failed us!”

To Nicoletto’s right, TVs set to Fox News flashed undeniably dismal numbers: Republicans down in Ohio, in Michigan, god — even in Texas . Nicoletto went on, telling the few dozen club regulars in attendance that he would “spend every waking moment” in the coming years signing up new Republican voters. “We are going to take the city back in 2028!”

There was a smattering of applause, a few hoots.…