May 17, 2022
Liz Cheney and a handful of other republicans call out their own party for the trend of bigotry and fear mongering. Francesca Fiorentini and Dan Evans break it down on The Damage Report.
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Republicans Play on Fears of ‘Great Replacement’ in Bid for Base Voters - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/republicans-great-replacement.html
"The mass shooting in Buffalo was the work of a lone gunman but not the product of an isolated ideology.
In a manifesto, the suspect detailed how he viewed Black people as “replacers” of white Americans. The massacre at the grocery store on Saturday trained a harsh light on the “great replacement theory,” which the authorities say he used to justify an act of racist violence — and on how that theory has migrated from the far-right fringes of American discourse toward the center of Republican politics.
Republicans across the spectrum were quick to denounce the killings. But fewer party leaders appeared willing to break with the politics of nativism and fear the party has embraced to retain the loyalties of right-wing voters inspired by Donald J. Trump."
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Read more here:
Republicans Play on Fears of ‘Great Replacement’ in Bid for Base Voters - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/republicans-great-replacement.html
"The mass shooting in Buffalo was the work of a lone gunman but not the product of an isolated ideology.
In a manifesto, the suspect detailed how he viewed Black people as “replacers” of white Americans. The massacre at the grocery store on Saturday trained a harsh light on the “great replacement theory,” which the authorities say he used to justify an act of racist violence — and on how that theory has migrated from the far-right fringes of American discourse toward the center of Republican politics.
Republicans across the spectrum were quick to denounce the killings. But fewer party leaders appeared willing to break with the politics of nativism and fear the party has embraced to retain the loyalties of right-wing voters inspired by Donald J. Trump."
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