Rolling Stone: The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf’. He’s a Mainstream Republican

In a sense, I agree with Talia Lavin.

If you are worried about the Great Replacement, you can hear your concerns echoed on FOX News. There are U.S. Senate candidates who are running for office on opposing the Great Replacement. There are congressmen and state legislators who are championing the issue. The cause has hit a critical mass in the populist wing of the GOP and we are no longer frozen out of mainstream politics.

Rolling Stone:

“Such was the case on Saturday, when a teenaged white supremacist named Payton Gendron opened fire in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people, while livestreaming the carnage on the live-video site Twitch. Prior to the shooting, he had posted a 180-page manifesto in which he laid out his rationale clearly: He was an adherent of what is called Great Replacement Theory, the idea that white people, in the United States and white-majority countries around the world, are being systematically, deliberately outbred and “replaced” by immigrants and ethnic minorities, in a deliberate attempt to rid the world of whiteness. It’s a conspiracy theory that has inspired terror attacks in New Zealand and Pittsburgh, San Diego, and El Paso – an ideology that marries demographic panic with the idea of a cunning, nefarious plot. Reading through the document, what struck me hardest, however, was how very close the killer’s ideas were to the American mainstream – the white-hot core of American politics. …”

Once upon a time, the pro-life movement also had a problem with violent vanguardiats who bombed abortion clinics and who assassinated abortionists, but the cause went on to hit a critical mass and was simply absorbed into mainstream politics.