Posted on 12/17/2023 8:58:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Midway through last week’s Republican presidential-primary debate, the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy started running through conspiracy theories like a frustrated child mashing buttons on Street Fighter, alleging that the Capitol riot was an “inside job” and that the so-called “Great Replacement” theory “is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”
Right-wing apologism for January 6 is no longer shocking, not even from Republican presidential candidates. Trumpists often vacillate between denying it happened, justifying and valorizing those who attempted to overthrow the government to keep Donald Trump in power, or insisting that they were somehow tricked into it by undercover agents provocateurs. But the basic facts remain: January 6 was a farcical but genuine attempt to overthrow the constitutional government, which many Trump supporters think is defensible because only conservatives should be allowed to hold power.
It was slightly more bizarre to watch Ramaswamy justify “the Great Replacement,” a white-supremacist conspiracy theory holding that, in the words of the disgraced former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, “the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.” This conviction has motivated slaughter in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and as far away as New Zealand. Seeing Ramaswamy invoke it was strange because he, the practicing Hindu son of Indian immigrants, is an obvious example of why it is a dumb idea.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
"Right now America is tearing itself apart as an embittered white conservative minority clings to power, terrified at being swamped by a new multiracial polyglot majority. The divide feels especially stark in Georgia, where the midterm election is a battle between Trumpist reaction and the multicultural America whose emergence the right is trying, at all costs, to forestall."
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"On Saturday morning, Abrams closed by reminding the crowd of Kemp’s views on democracy. “He said he is concerned that if everyone eligible to vote in Georgia does so, he will lose this election,” she said. “Let’s prove him right.” In a week, American voters can do to white nationalists what they fear most. Show them they’re being replaced."
Hilarious!
Don’t read this while watching people stream across the souther border!
I don’t mind legal immigrants; my family came to America through the front door.
I despise folks sneaking across the border with their hands out.
The leftists bigots think that it is all about race without either realizing or admitting that it’s about values and culture. The invaders are lacking in both.
I got as far as “Right-wing apologism for January 6.”
Comment #1 - the NYT pay wall blocks the date of publication.
What is the date the NYT published the article you linked?
Thanks.
Read later.
Attracting flak.
Written by Adam Sewer
I've heard Democratic pols crow with delight - Rep. Castro for one - that whites will soon be a minority.
But yeah, that's not what they're trying to do. /s
The Atlantic - read no further
Anyone still pretending January 6th was an attempted overthrow of the government is not a serious person.
Oct. 29, 2018
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Oct. 30, 2008When a Democrat tells you what they intend to do to you, BELIEVE THEM."We will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age."
"All this we can do. And all this we will do."
People could have denied this or argued about it in the past, but Biden’s policy made it very clear what has been going on. You don’t throw aside all standards and the laws if something nefarious isn’t going on.
The author of this article is Jewish and five will get you ten his ancestors came out of the shtetl and brought Marxism along with their luggage.
Whatever is printed in this sorry excuse for an intellectual magazine is the exact opposite of the truth.
Here is the 1960 Democrat Party Platform on immigration.
Immigration
We shall adjust our immigration, nationality and refugee policies to eliminate discrimination and to enable members of scattered families abroad to be united with relatives already in our midst.
The national-origins quota system of limiting immigration contradicts the founding principles of this nation. It is inconsistent with our belief in the rights of man. This system was instituted after World War I as a policy of deliberate discrimination by a Republican Administration and Congress.
The revision of immigration and nationality laws we seek will implement our belief that enlightened immigration, naturalization and refugee policies and humane administration of them are important aspects of our foreign policy.
These laws will bring greater skills to our land, reunite families, permit the United States to meet its fair share of world programs of rescue and rehabilitation, and take advantage of immigration as an important factor in the growth of the American economy.
In this World Refugee Year it is our hope to achieve admission of our fair share of refugees. We will institute policies to alleviate suffering among the homeless wherever we are able to extend our aid.
We must remove the distinctions between native-born and naturalized citizens to assure full protection of our laws to all. There is no place in the United States for “second-class citizenship.”
The protections provided by due process, right of appeal, and statutes of limitation, can be extended to non-citizens without hampering the security of our nation.
We commend the Democratic Congress for the initial steps that have recently been taken toward liberalizing changes in immigration law. However, this should not be a piecemeal project and we are confident that a Democratic President in cooperation with Democratic Congresses will again implant a humanitarian and liberal spirit in our nation’s immigration and citizenship policies.
Invasion is not immigration
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