Mike Johnson’s conspiracy theories about ‘illegals’ mark a new GOP low
Mike Johnson’s conspiracy theories about ‘illegals’ mark a new GOP low
The new House speaker has trafficked in ugly theories that bode badly.
Bruh. I'm so tired of these headlines.
No it does fucking not. Where have you been the last four years? This might be new for a Speaker, but the GOP have been tacitly and overtly supportive of conspiracy theories this whole time, especially the antisemitic and white supremacist ones.
MAGA Mike believing in "The Great Replacement" is par for the course for the GOP.
You're absolutely corecct. But this is just a way for people to talk, notice and hopefully rethink. I know it's a slim hope that these people can still be reached, but I'm happy enough to see headlines pointing out the endorseded racism of republicans, even if it is VERY old news.
Its past time to give up on them. Put it down to propaganda, lead poisoning, inertia, whatever - there is nothing that will bring them back into reality where science and facts matter. Nothing.
We could have fended this off if middle-of-the-road Democrats hadn’t spent the 80’s 90’s and 00’s trying to be republican-lite instead of actual progressives.
And I say that as a relative moderate. It’s just been that bad for that long.
They're all like this. Just give them Utah and Texas as their own country and call it good.
America has located a new country in need of democracy
Texas would be sufficient, TBH. It's enormous.
Not Texas there's a restaurant I like there. How about Alabama instead
Tennessee would be best fit for them.
I mean...I get it. But can we evacuate Utah first? I'm currently stuck here and it's bad enough as-is.
This isn't new for Republicans and they've sunk lower.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected House speaker, has repeatedly flirted with what’s known as the “great replacement theory,” the idea that Democrats are scheming to supplant American voters with immigrants.
The “open borders” trope is a lie, and while a few municipalities allow voting for noncitizens in local elections, in no sense do national Democrats have any such “plan” for “all the illegals.” As far as I can determine, no House speaker in recent memory has been quite as reckless and incendiary with this kind of language.
He reiterated the claim in an interview this year with the right-wing outlet Newsmax, accusing President Biden of “intentionally” encouraging undocumented migration to “turn all these illegals into voters for their side.” On numerous other occasions, he has made similar charges, even declaring that Democrats’ express goal is the “destruction of our country at the expense of our own people.”
Other predecessors, such as John A. Boehner and Paul D. Ryan, were supporters — nominally, at least — of reforms that would legalize large numbers of undocumented immigrants, though they ultimately failed to deliver.
Indeed, former president Donald Trump recently made the racist implications behind the great replacement theory explicit by claiming that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Julián Castro, a former member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, anticipates Republican efforts to shut down the government to force Democrats to “remake the asylum system in the MAGA cult’s image.”
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it's only a conspiracy until it happens - then it's the "new normal".
Are you implying The Great Replacement is anything but a conspiracy theory? Because that's what it looks like you're saying.