U.S. Representative Liz Cheney called on fellow Republicans to reject white supremacism, days after a teenage gunman motivated by the right-wing "great replacement" theory allegedly killed 10 people in a racist shooting in western New York state.
"The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism," Cheney, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump and his allies in the House of Representatives, wrote on Twitter.
"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," she tweeted.
Republicans have been glomming onto "the great replacement" with both hands.
Born from far-right nationalism, the extremist ideology expounding the view that immigration will ultimately destroy white values and western civilization has found favor not only with media figures, such as the conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson, but a host of elected politicians and others seeking office.
Those who have convinced themselves Democrats are operating an open-door immigration policy to “replace” Republican voters with people of color and keep themselves in power permanently include Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, chair of her party’s House conference, and JD Vance, the Donald Trump-approved Republican nominee to represent Ohio in the US Senate.
Republicans are blowing steam-whistles to their racist base. They are steam-whistles because the racism is not coded, it is out front for all to see. Stefanik and her ilk might as well walk around wearing white sheets. It's one thing for a bunch of neo-nazis to yammer a racist theory. it is quite another for that to be adopted by a major political party and be broadcast approvingly on a cable news channel. Stefanik, Gingrich, Tuckyo Rose, the TOFF and the rest of that sordid crowd of authoritarian racists.
More than sixty people in this country; Blacks, Hispanics and Jews, have been killed by white supremacists who were espousing that racist line of claptrap. Their blood is, in part, on the hands of the politicians and the talking heads who have been normalizing white supremacy conspiracy theory.
And this, too.
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All of what you say is closer to the truth than anything the GOP has to offer.
I get a bit twisted in my assessments. I embrace the theory that this is nothing
more than Kabuki theater. There can be no other explanation. Nobody is as stupid
as Louis Gomert, no one is as ridiculous as Ted Cruz, nobody is as asinine as
Ron DeSantis,...vacant as Ron Johnson...ineffectual as Nancy Pelosi...Useless as
Chuck Schumer. The vast majority of this group are Ivy League educated. These folks
should NOT be acting like this. Why are they?! Only two parties, both feeding from
the same trough. Why wouldn't they? I am getting really depressed thinking that these
idiots are keeping things polarized to keep the soft money rolling in. Just today, Cruz
won a minor skirmish over what he could do with the sucker funds he gets covered with
from his loyal followers. Is this nothing more than misdirection and greed? We are MUCH
better than this.
Reading the link I noticed she said "pedos" which she now says means children. What next, will she say she sympathizes with the "not-sees" she means the visually impaired. At one time she was considered to be a moderate Republican but she has now gone to the Dark Side probably seeing that this is the way the Republicans have gone.
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