If there’s anyone who still doesn’t know what it is, “The Great Replacement Theory” is the current iteration of long-standing antisemitic right wing conspiracy lie. Replacement Theory advocates claim that a diabolical group is secretly working to sneak in non-white immigrants to displace white people and take over America. That group, of course, is the Jews.
The Great Replacement Theory used to be the province of the most extreme far-right wack jobs, mainly neo-Nazis, white supremacists and Christian Identity type groups. That’s all changed since Donald Trump took over the Republican Party. He welcomed the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville who screamed “Jews will not replace us” and he repeatedly spread the lie that Jewish billionaire George Soros and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid society were the main actors in this nefarious plot. Once the racist and antisemitic trope was openly adopted by Trump, it was only a matter of time until the entire GOP cult voiced the same racist lie. That day has arrived. It’s now effectively part of the Republican Party platform and aside from Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, no Republican has the courage to speak out against this horrific and dangerous lie..
We need to put an end to this racist theory and we need to do it now. We should recall how Ambassador Fiona Hill pleaded with disgraced and defeated former President Trump to stop spreading the lie that George Soros and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society were smuggling in immigrants to change the American demographics. He would not stop, not even after a Nazi broke into the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven people at prayer while screaming “This is for Soros, this is for HIAS.” Weeks later another Nazi did the same and killed three people at a synagogue in San Diego. Then we had the massacre of Latinos in Texas, and now this genocidal attack on African-Americans in Buffalo. What can we expect when it is spread not only by Tucker Carlson and Fox, but also Elise Stefanik, the number three GOP leader in the House, along with Reps. Gaetz, Green, Gosar, Massie and others, as well as Senators Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz? So long as political leaders give credence to this racist lie, their neo-Nazi followers are going to act.We need to defeat the politicians who promote this despicable and un American lie.We know who they are.
