The Dems 'great replacement' scam

 David Catron:

Since the Democrats gained control of Congress in January of 2021, they have squandered their tenuous grip on power by engaging in profligate spending, performative investigations and abortive attempts to federalize state elections. The resultant paucity of legislative achievements, combined with a long list of Biden administration blunders, has given the GOP a realistic chance to win majorities in the House and Senate this November. Inevitably, this means “Republican racism” will be a central theme of the Democratic midterm campaign. Indeed, they have already crafted a narrative to explain the GOP’s alleged affinity for white supremacy — the “great replacement” theory.

This is a cynical attempt to exploit the recent mass murder in Buffalo by associating Republicans with cherry-picked passages from the killer’s 180-page manifesto, which includes several oblique references to the theory. The irony of this narrative is that, like most political theses based on shifting demographics and group identity, replacement theory has long been identified with the left. The most obvious example is the 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, by Ruy Teixeira and John B. Judis. They argued that a variety of social and demographic changes — including the growth of nonwhite communities as a percentage of the electorate — offered the Democrats an opportunity to dominate American politics.

That this never happened is due to what Teixeira calls “the bowdlerization” of his thesis. As he wrote in 2020, “Democratic pundits, operatives and elected officials have falsely come to believe that demographics are destiny.” Teixeira goes on to point out that this misreading led directly to the most shocking upset endured by the Democrats so far this century: “The apotheosis of this attitude was Hillary Clinton’s infamous statement that half of Trump’s supporters belonged in a ‘basket of deplorables’.” Incredibly, the Democrats and the media are about to commit the very same blunder by insisting that racism is a mainstream Republican value. Writing in the Atlantic, Adam Serwer sums up the party line as follows:

The conspiracy theory of a Great Replacement is now part of the Republican mainstream.… During the Trump administration, conservative elites could distance themselves from Trump as individuals while still supporting his policies. But now that so many important Republicans have embraced the idea, the conservative elite must find a way to make the sanitized version of this genocidal nonsense respectable. A strain of self-implicating paranoia underlies the entire concept, the fear that once they are a minority, white people will be subject to revenge for the dark chapters of American history.

That most of the “dark chapters of American history” were authored by the Democratic Party has escaped Serwer. Slavery, Jim Crow and segregation were perpetrated by and for the Democrats. The charge that Republicans subscribe to the great replacement theory is based on the notion that opposition to illegal immigration must be grounded in white supremacy and fear of the other. This is how the Washington Post manages to brand Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as an adherent to the theory: “While Stefanik has not pushed the theory by name, she and other conservatives have echoed the tenets of the far-right ideology as part of anti-immigrant rhetoric that has fired up the Republican base ahead of the midterm elections.”

Note that Stefanik is somehow guilty of promulgating replacement theory, despite never having uttered the term. But don’t expect mere facts to curb the character assassination....
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What Democrats are trying to do is justify their open borders policy by falsely claiming it is racist to enforce immigration laws.  There is an argument that Democrats favor open borders in order to import voters since not enough citizens support their leftist agenda.