Why white supremacists love Tucker Carlson's "great replacement" musings

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NEW: His latest rant about immigrants “replacing” Americans just confirms that Tucker Carlson’s entire ideology—like Trumpism itself—is little more than rank nativism.

And it’s the same bigoted, racial revanchism that’s a through-line in US history.

Opinion | Why white supremacists love Tucker Carlson's "great replacement" musings
There are still plenty of Americans seeking confirmation that their rank nativism is right.
nbcnews.com
5:10 PM · Apr 12, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-s-great-replacement-fox-news-segment-uses-newer-ncna1263880

For the past few years, white nationalists around the world have been workshopping a new framing for a much older fear. According to these extremists, immigrants — primarily from developing, and predominately nonwhite, countries — are flooding into the West, seeking to “replace” the current body politic. The rhetoric, couched as the “great replacement” theory, has propelled fascistic massacres from New Zealand to San Diego to El Paso, Texas.

And earlier this month, these white supremacists found a familiar mouthpiece acting as a megaphone for their latest line of bigotry.

On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson seemingly answered whatever questions may remain about his willingness to carry water for these white supremacists. Carlson wailed that the Democratic Party was “trying to replace the current electorate” in the U.S. with “new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.” That, according to Carlson, is “what’s happening actually. Let’s just say it. That’s true.”

One problem? Carlson ignored the fact that the 2020 electorate turned out far more immigrant and nonwhite populations for Donald Trump than the U.S. had seen in years, or that the biggest gains in the Democratic camp in recent years have been among white, college-educated suburbanites. For Carlson, things such as facts and figures are mostly irrelevant. “Every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter,” he continued. “I have less political power because they are importing a brand new electorate.”

The Fox News host tried during the segment to dodge the obvious racial overtones, arguing that “everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it.” Everyone is making this about race, because it is about race. And that’s easily proved by looking at the primary proponents of this rhetoric.

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