Tom Boggioni reports that Rep. Elise Stefanik has been a proponent of the conspiracy-minded “Great Replacement” belief popular among white supremacists.(Raw Story, May 15, 2022. — wfw
Reacting to the Buffalo, New York mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood committed by an admittedly racist 18-year-old white man, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA) pointed the finger at the third-ranking Republican in the House for a tweet she made earlier that has received universal condemnation.
As was noted Saturday afternoon following the shooting that claimed ten lives and left three more wounded, Rep. Elise Stefanik has been a proponent of the conspiracy-minded “Great Replacement” belief popular among white supremacists.
Eight months ago, the Time Union took Stefanik to task in an editorial, writing, “That rhetoric has been resonating ever since in the right-wing, repackaged lately in what’s known as ‘replacement theory,’ espoused by conservative media figures like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. And it has seeped into the mainstream political discourse in the Capital Region, where Rep. Elise Stefanik has adapted this despicable tactic for campaign ads.”
With that in mind, Swalwell noted that prior to the shooting Stefanik attacked liberals on Twitter where she wrote, “The White House, House Dems, & usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people that rather than present ANY PLAN or urgency to address the nationwide baby formula crisis, they double down on senEAD MOREding pallets of formula to the southern border. Joe Biden has NO PLAN.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who In a blunt column for the conservative Bulwark, Cato Senior Fellow Cathy Young’ explained, “.. jumped on the bandwagon as well with a Facebook ad claiming that the Democrats were going to use amnesty for illegal immigrants to ‘overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.'”
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