How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize 'great replacement' ugliness

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Greg Sargent
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Republicans who have pushed "great replacement theory" of late:

Elise Stefanik
Ron Johnson
Dan Patrick
Scott Perry
JD Vance

As experts in this movement point out, they all employ the scam of disguising this vile ideology in racially neutral packaging:

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Opinion | How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness
Don't let Republicans get away with their ugly 'great replacement theory' scam.
8:31 AM · May 16, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/elise-stefanik-tucker-carlson-buffalo-shooting-great-replacement/

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Nothing gets Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik angrier than reciting their own words back to them at a politically inconvenient moment. So it is that the New York lawmaker is lashing out at critics who have noted her flirtation with “great replacement theory” in the wake of the horrific racist shooting in her home state.

The online screed of alleged Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron posits a conspiracy to exterminate and replace native-born Whites in Western nations. He explicitly labels this a planned “genocide."
Stefanik, meanwhile, declared in ads last September that Democrats would legalize undocumented immigrants in a “PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION." That’s a vile replacement trope pushed by the No. 3 in the House GOP leadership.

Confronted by this in the wake of Gendron’s alleged mass murder of mostly Black victims, a Stefanik adviser insisted she has “never advocated for any racist position,” while raging against “sickening” reporting and a “disgusting low for the left.”

Actually, the “disgusting low” was committed by Stefanik herself. Because in this episode we see how Republicans like Stefanik launder and sanitize these ideas in ways that insinuate them ever deeper into mainstream discourse.

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[keep_left]

1. WTF happened to Elise Stefanik?!

I knew she was someone I disagreed with, but she seemingly has become a MAGA chud overnight. Maybe I missed something, though? She's not my representative, so I haven't been paying much attention.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Moral clarity has left this country

So much muddying up of the borders between right and wrong, moral and immoral.