The Great Replacement

The Great Replacement, also known as the replacement theory, is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory, disseminated by French author Renaud Camus. Nowadays racist conspirators will tell you that Joe Biden is intentionally trying to replace the population with people imported here from the third world.  Not only will this dilute white culture it will also influence the outcome of elections.  Somehow these imported, dark-skinned people will immediately become citizens, eligible to vote and replace hundreds of years of your culture overnight.  It is like magic.  But I digress.

But as conservatives once understood, ideas can have consequences; and poisonous demagoguery can have bad outcomes.  This Great Replacement Theory has been cited by several mass shooters since 2018.  This includes Robert Bowers who has been charged in the killing of eleven people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.  Patrick Crusius killed twenty three people in El Paso and John Earnest murdered one and injured three others at a California synagogue.  And now, in Buffalo, where the killer issued a 180-page manifesto that echoes previous killers and embraces the Replacement Theory.  

A number of Republican politicians, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.) and my own Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), have openly espoused the great replacement theory too. 

Remarkably, only a few hours after the Buffalo shooting, Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters (R) posted a video advancing the crazy hypothesis that the Democrats want open borders so they can bring in and amnesty tens of millions of illegal aliens — that’s their electoral strategy.  Apparently he missed the part that only legal immigrants that attain citizenship can vote. 

No one, however, has done as much to bring the Replacement Theory into the heart of our political culture as Tucker Carlson. 

The fact of this matter is that there is no evidence, whatsoever, of individuals from overseas being imported en mass to make our population more brown or to sway domestic elections.  Moreover, Carlson didn't pull the trigger at the Buffalo mass shooting.

Tucker Carlson laughs all the way to the bank when he provokes the left with this bullshit.  The problem is that MAGA world believes it and returns for a double helping.  Nearly half of all Republicans believe that there is a plot to “replace” native-born Americans with immigrants.

Rational individuals don't fall for this.  Sane and decent individuals distance themselves from this race-baiting nonsense.

The responsibility for the murders in Buffalo lies with the murderer himself and the “blood on their hands” crowd needs to keep that in mind.  Carlson may be poisoning minds but he's not inciting violence. 

How'd the GOP get so nutty in my lifetime?