‘Great Replacement’ Theory Bleeds Into GOP Campaigns

“When Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was recently asked on Fox News about immigration reform, he floated a conspiracy theory that’s quickly becoming gospel on the right: that Democrats want a flood of immigrants to remake America and keep them in power,” Vice News reports.

“He’s far from the only Republican who espouses these beliefs. And he may soon have more colleagues in the Senate who believe that Democrats’ plan is to import enough eventual voters to take over control of the electorate for good: At least a half-dozen Republican Senate candidates have voiced similar sentiments on the campaign trail in recent weeks, a sign of how mainstream and deeply ingrained in modern Republican orthodoxy this conspiracy theory has become.”

“It’s similar to, though not exactly the same as, the ‘great replacement’ theory, a white supremacist conspiracy theory that’s been popularized by the alt-right over the past decade.”