For years now, Republican leaders have embraced MAGA extremists who traffic in white supremacy and echo vile, racist conspiracy theories like the “great replacement.”
Republicans have made clear that dangerous white supremacist conspiracy theories have a home in today’s MAGA Republican Party.
Vanity Fair: “REPUBLICANS ARE FURIOUS PEOPLE REMEMBER THEY’VE BEEN PUSHING THE RACIST ‘GREAT REPLACEMENT’ RHETORIC FOR YEARS”
Associated Press: “Republican Senate candidates promote ‘replacement’ theory”
Insider: “Mitch McConnell condemns racism as ‘abhorrent’ but sidesteps questions about ‘great replacement theory’”
Rolling Stone: “High-Ranking Republican Pushes ‘Great Replacement’ Rhetoric Two Days After White Supremacist Mass Shooting”
New York Times: “Yet in recent months, versions of the same ideas, sanded down and shorn of explicitly anti-Black and antisemitic themes, have become commonplace in the Republican Party — spoken aloud at congressional hearings, echoed in Republican campaign advertisements and embraced by a growing array of right-wing candidates and media personalities.”
NPR: “The ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory isn’t fringe anymore, it’s mainstream”
