Our little racist is all grown up now! Because of hateful rhetoric spewed from Elise Stefanik, a white supremacist went on a killing spree in Buffalo, NY.
The Great Replacement theory has had deadly real-world implications. It was cited in a manifesto left behind by the white supremacist who shot and killed 51 people and injured 40 in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. The idea was also invoked by neo-Nazis who protested in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, using the slogan, "Jews will not replace us."
“If there’s anything that needs replacing in this country — and in the Republican Party — it’s the hateful rhetoric that Ms. Stefanik and far too many of her colleagues so seamlessly spew.”
- Albany Times Union (Stefanik's Hometown)