Republican leaders have made white supremacy excusable, accuses Liz Cheney

While elected Republicans have for two days rejected accusations that the rhetoric of some of their own encourages racism, Liz Cheney also threw stones at her former colleagues on Monday by posting her reproaches on Twitter.

” The management of [Parti républicain] of the House of Representatives has made white nationalism, white supremacy and anti-Semitism excusable. History has taught us that what begins with words ends with much worse. »

The leaders [républicains] must renounce and reject these opinions and those who defend themadded the one who, until barely a year ago, was part of the high Republican hierarchy in Congress.

Such criticism from a politician who has been criticizing Republican leadership since the 2020 presidential election is not surprising in itself. Having become an outcast within her training for having maintained that the presidential election had not been stolen from Donald Trump, Ms. Cheney was even ousted from her position as president of the Republican Conference in the House.

Such an outing by a traditionalist and conservative politician, daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney, linking the white nationalism claimed by the author of the shooting on Saturday to the attitude of his own political family, does not is by no means trivial.

Ms Cheney was, in turn, taken to task by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who accused her of tweeting the divisive and dangerous lies of the Democrats in an attempt to raise money from Democratic donors to retain his seat. How patheticdid she say.

Last February, Marjorie Taylor Greeene and her colleague Paul Gosar participated, with impunity, in a conference organized by a white supremacist.

If Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he was judging appalling the behavior of these two members of his caucus, he did not, however, impose any reprisals on them.

The “Great Replacement”

The Justice Department described the shooting that left 10 people dead at a supermarket in a predominantly African-American neighborhood on Saturday as a hate crime and an act ofviolent extremism motivated by racism.

The man identified by law enforcement as the perpetrator of the shooting, Payton Gendron, 18, describes himself as a white supremacist in a 180-page document posted online shortly before the tragedy and that the authorities deem authentic.

The 18-year-old invokes in his manifest the conspiracy theory of great replacementa far-right conspiratorial ideology according to which the elites, in particular Jews, want to replace the white population in particular by the way of immigration.

Once marginal, the idea has now found its way into more conventional right-wing circles, in a watered-down version from which overtly anti-Semitic themes are evacuated.

Some, including Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, have pointed to the one who replaced Liz Cheney, Elise Stefanik.

Did you know that Elise Stefanik promotes white replacement theory? No. 3 of [Parti républicain] from the room, he wrote on Twitter on Saturday. Liz Cheney, of whom he is one of the rare allies, was hunted [de son poste] because she asked for the truthhe denounced.

Kevin McCarthy should answer questions about ithe wrote, hyperlinking to an article criticizing an advertisement by Ms. Stefanik’s campaign team published last September on Facebook.

While the ad doesn’t name the theory by name, it does echo some elements of its rhetoric.

The Radical Democrats are plotting their most aggressive coup yet: A PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION. Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.hammered the advertisement.

This type of message is increasingly conveyed by elected officials and Republican candidates, as well as by right-wing media, such as Fox News.

A survey of New York Times published earlier this month demonstrated that star host Tucker Carlson claimed the elites and the Democratic camp were trying to force demographic change in more than 400 episodes of his show, the most popular news network on the cable.

According to a poll by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s Center for National Opinion Research released days before the shooting, nearly a third of Americans believe a group of people are bringing immigrants into the United States. United to replace so-called native Americans for political gain. Among Republicans, the proportion climbs to almost one in two.