Donald Trump made clear on the Philadelphia debate stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, the basis of his run for office. Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation. This time around, Trump has made his primary message, the so-called Great Replacement Theory (GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states.
According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nation’s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, as vermin or diseases.
GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called “Black Horror on the Rhine.” In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:
I’ve got a theory of my own: anyone afraid of being “replaced” isn’t that great, and should actually be replaced. Bigots, feel free to go back where you came from.
Its hard to shove them back up the holes they crawl out of.
GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.
Back in the days of the Nazis, the number of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africans forms France was tiny compared to the millions of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa into Europe today.
GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.
It really should be.
If I was illiterate racist redneck trash in the south, I’d be terrified when decent people who actually believe in work and are far better Christians than I always scream I am show up.
Trash is embarrassed when they’re compared next to not-trash.
Your disdain for lower class people is repulsive.
I love lower-class people everywhere else.
Just not the racist filth in the south.
We ended reconstruction early.
Their cruelty towards those poorer than them (just because they had a different skin color) is even worse.
US uses predominantly black slaves to achieve in a century what other countries did in a millennia
Free’s slaves
US: “Thank you black people for what you’ve done for this country.”
Black people: “And…?”
US: “And… now, get the fuck out.”
Trump is throwing up shit everywhere just to see what sticks. He also promised billionaires that he is going to hand out an unlimited number of green cards to foreigners to work American jobs and lower American wages. Trump is actually an immigration extremist at both ends.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-immigration-expansionist/
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-rebel-over-immigration-proposal-green-card-college/
He’s been doing this forever. He’s THE flip flopper of all flip flopping.
Just replace Trump voters with sane people.
He is not wrong. We wanna replace that cold war bullshit and 80s plastic consumerism. Fuck aquanet.
Well, he’s wrong about the racist shit.
This ISNT true! This is WOKE!
Yeah. We know. Great article. Does some AI just churn this drivel out or what.
Trump: /openly peddles Neo-Nazi rhetoric/
Neo-Nazis: /Celebrate that Trump and friends are peddling their propaganda/
Salon: /Reports on the mainstreaming of extremist political views by Trump and other Republicans/
You: “Salon should shut the fuck up”
It seems you picked a side in this issue, and that side is decidedly against the press and not against Fascism.
Okee doke. Flood the zone with constant “what did Trump do now” worked so well in 2016. GRT has been in the news because of Trump since 2016. Look at the vertiginous rise in Ngrams in 2016. It’s just one of the many things he does to keep himself central in the news cycle.
No news is worse than bad news at this point in a presidential campaign. Especially when the “bad news” is the same stuff that didn’t turn around any of his voters in the past.
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