{"id":1489730,"date":"2022-05-24T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489730"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:16:13","slug":"a-shocking-amount-of-democrats-believe-in-idea-behind-great-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-shocking-amount-of-democrats-believe-in-idea-behind-great-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shocking Amount Of Democrats Believe In Idea Behind \u2018Great Replacement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-shocking-amount-of-democrats-believe-in-idea-behind-great-replacement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new poll shows a shocking amount of Democrats believe in the idea behind the \u201cgreat replacement theory\u201d despite attempts from the left to brand it as a fringe right-wing conspiracy theory in the wake of the deadly Buffalo shooting.<\/p>\n<p>A YouGov\/Yahoo poll found that 61% of former President Donald Trump supporters believe in the tenet of the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory that \u201ca group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/575467042\/Poll-61-of-Trump-voters-agree-with-conspiracy-theory-that-inspired-Buffalo-shooter#download&#038;from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t just right-leaning individuals. The poll also found that 21% of registered Democrats agreed with the statement while 37% of independents also agreed with the statement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/patel-are-republicans-a-bunch-of-racists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: PATEL: Are Republicans A Bunch Of Racists?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted between May 19-22 among 1,573 U.S. adults.<\/p>\n<p>The theory is rooted in early French nationalism but was popularized by French author Renaud Camus, who believed white Europeans were being replaced within their countries by non-whites from Africa and the Middle East, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounders\/the-great-replacement-an-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Defamation League<\/a> (ADL).<\/p>\n<p>The ideology recently made headlines after 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/alleged-buffalo-shooter-payton-gendron-investigation-police-year-before-threats-graduation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Payton Gendron<\/a> allegedly carried out a horrific mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. In a manifesto posted online prior to carrying out the crime, Gendron talked about how whites are being replaced nationwide. While Gendron made not a single mention of Daily Caller co-founder and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, it nonetheless didn\u2019t stop several high profile individuals from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/liberals-hellbent-censorship-tucker-carlson-consistently-called-colorblind-meritocracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blaming Carlson for allegedly promoting<\/a> the theory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7435545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7435545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man prays with children at a memorial at the scene of a weekend shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, U.S. May 20, 2022. REUTERS\/Lindsay DeDario<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carlson discussed the theory in 2021 in regards to elections and voting, citing a 2015 clip from then Vice President Joe Biden who said \u201cit\u2019s a source of our strength,\u201d that white people would comprise less than half of America in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policy is called the great replacement, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries,\u201d Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tucker-carlson-endorses-white-supremacist-replacement-conspiracy-theory-2021-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in September. \u201cThey brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it\u2019s happening, they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone wants to make a racial issue out of it, oh white replacement. No, this is a voting rights question. I have less political power because they are importing a brand-new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that?\u201d Carlson said in April of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Despite insistence that the theory is being pushed by Republicans, Democrats repeatedly have said they <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/media-replacement-theory-buffalo-shooting-hispanic-vote-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wanted to change the electorate makeup<\/a> by changing the voter demographic.<\/p>\n<p>A 2013 Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/01\/democrats-launch-plan-to-turn-texas-blue-086651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> detailed how \u201cDemocrats have eyed Texas longingly for years, watching as the Republican bastion has transformed into a majority-minority state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The piece then goes on to explain how Democrats would focus their efforts on capitalizing on the state\u2019s \u201cdiversity\u201d in order to flip it from red to purple. Former Democratic Houston Mayor Annise Parker said Democrats \u201chave been waiting in Texas for a very long time for the Latino vote to come into its own and turn the tide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salon wrote in 2008 that \u201cdems [will] win the White House every time\u201d if Democrats \u201ccan count on Hispanics to deliver\u201d Arizona, Texas and a few other states.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2008-nov-09-na-assess9-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> in 2008 that Democrats predicted far more victories as voters become \u201cprogressively less white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA multiethnic bloc of Latinos, blacks, young people and suburban whites helped to broaden the party\u2019s reach Tuesday well beyond its traditional base in the Northeast and West Coast \u2013 carrying Barack Obama into the White House and expanding the party\u2019s majorities in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats scored gains from a voting base that is growing progressively less white than the population,\u201d the piece continued, noting places where \u201cminorities made up a larger share of the vote\u201d helped turn the tide from red to blue.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal think tank Center for American Progress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/immigration-is-changing-the-political-landscape-in-key-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in 2013 that supporting \u201creal immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation\u2019s 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll shows a shocking amount of Democrats believe in the idea behind the \u201cgreat replacement theory\u201d despite attempts from the left to brand it as a fringe right-wing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1489752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}