Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist and so were Republican Party stalwarts like Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott. The hubris of some of these revisionists around here who act like Donald Trump injected racism into some sort of previously worldly, tolerant Republican Party is something to behold. |
+1 It’s baked into the pie. They had to go underground for a while, but when that dead guy Rush Limballs started making fun of “PC culture” and all that (the retread of which we’re living through with the GOP obsession with “woke”), they started to fly the flag again. And then Trump sent the flag all the way up the flagpole. |
+1 Ice try thi OP in your subject line. Try again without discrediting yourself. |
Read the Post article above. Some Republican politicians and media figures have absolutely mainstreamed replacement theory so that even “normal” Republicans like Elise Stefanik are spouting it now. |
Which Post article? |
| It’s not like any of them were pregnant with babies, who are actual people, as opposed to women or minorities. I’m sure that would be upsetting to the maga crowd. |
It is a feature not a bug. And they will claim they are being cancelled or losing their First Amendment rights if any government entity tries to do something about it. |
Don’t waste your energy, PP. Loons gotta loon. Trey Gowdy had a very powerful show tonight on the Buffalo shooting and white supremacists/extremists. Fox News, btw. https://www.foxnews.com/shows/sunday-night-in-america-with-trey-gowdy |
Strom Thurmond was a Dixiecrat who because a democrat and then switched to the GOP as the transformation away from the "Party of Lincoln" evolved after the Civil Right Act was signed. Lott was a Southern Democrats who switched to the GOP I think, in the early 1990's as well. It galls me that people in the GOP today are still gaslighing the public, citing that phrase all while supporting the most extreme anti-Lincoln legislation and policies since the Jim Crow era. And yet, there are smart people in this forum who don't see it. |
| So maybe that whole CRT thing was a diversionary tactic, huh. |
Yet the traditional republicans do nothing to distance themselves from these people, in word or policy |
They seem perfectly fine with it. Party > everything else. |
Political parties are organizations that do not have “beliefs” at all. Only people can have them. Just like games don’t have “integrity”; only the players can. But I don’t think you are saying that. I think you are saying the replacement theorists aren’t true Republicans. They are. The GOP is a membership organization. It’s positions are whatever it’s leaders say they are. The same way that today’s GOP does not have the same principles as it did under Abe Lincoln, which was different from Teddy Roosevelt, which was different again from Ike, and then again Reagan and Bush. Tucker Carlson has used it over 400 times on his show. If you expect me to swallow that TC is not a shill for the GOP, then you’re dumber than a bag of hammers. TC has been defended by Trump and Trumpies like Matt Gaetz and Stefanik. |
I didn’t even know it was a mainstream R concept until I came on this board and was told that’s the case. Do we know how this guy actually votes — or if he votes at all? |
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If the “Great Replacement Theory” is about immigrants, why did the Buffalo shooter target Black people?
Also, what’s the difference between the “GRT” and just pointing out that white people will no longer be a majority in the US, white people on average have fewer children than Hispanic immigrants, etc? These things are facts. Is it presented in a hateful way? I don’t watch tucker Carlson/Fox News. |