Cheney Calls On GOP To Denounce White Nationalism

The New York Times reports:

In just the past year, Republican luminaries like Newt Gingrich and Elise Stefanik, the center-right New York congresswoman turned Trump acolyte (and third-ranking House Republican), have echoed replacement theory. Appearing on Fox, Mr. Gingrich declared that leftists were attempting to “drown” out “classic Americans.”

In September, Ms. Stefanik released a campaign ad on Facebook claiming that Democrats were plotting “a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION” by granting “amnesty” to illegal immigrants, which her ad said would “overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”

That same month, Rep. Matt Gaetz wrote on Twitter, “@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America.”  In a statement after the Buffalo shooting, Mr. Gaetz said that he had “never spoken of replacement theory in terms of race.”

Read the full article. Cheney’s tweet, at least in part, appears to be aimed at her successor Stefanik.

The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 16, 2022

Compelling NYTimes story on how GOP politicians and Fox News pundits like Tucker Carlson espouse ideas about "replacement theory" – elites engineering demographic change to disempower white people – similar to notions echoed by some violent extremists. https://t.co/zUecrCur27

— Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) May 16, 2022