Mitch McConnell Won't Denounce 'Great Replacement Theory'

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Source: Crooks and Liars



Because he would lose many, many Republican votes.
By Joan McCarter — May 18, 2022

The highest ranking Republican official in U.S. government, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, repeatedly refused to denounce “replacement theory” in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. That puts him in company with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third in command among House Republicans who seems to be an adherent of the white nationalist conspiracy theory.

The slaughter of 10 Black Americans in Buffalo by a white nationalist terrorist and the reaction to that carnage clarifies a whole hell of a lot about the Republican Party of 2022 and the individual members of it. Especially McConnell, who controls half of the Senate and is the one person with the most power to turn the white supremacist GOP ship around. He won’t do it.
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Asked repeatedly Tuesday about his responsibility as a party leader to condemn the theory, he refused, dancing around the question instead by calling the shooter a “deranged young man,” refusing to acknowledge the motivation behind the massacre. The most he would do is condemn generic racism. “Look—racism of any sort is abhorrent in America and ought to be stood up to by everybody, both Republicans, Democrats, all Americans,” McConnell said.

By the way, Stefanik isn’t trying to redeem herself by denouncing white nationalism either. Instead, she says the Buffalo terrorist attack shouldn’t be politicized. “Our nation is heartbroken and sad and of the horrific loss of life in Buffalo. This was an act of pure evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Stefanik said. “It is not the time to politicize this tragedy. We mourn together as a nation.”...............

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[AZLD4Candidate]

1. You mean this McTurtle?

[BlueIdaho]

2. I approve of the replacement

Of that old bastard and all of his cronies. The world would be a better place without them.

[electric_blue68]

14. +1

[Blue Owl]

3. Just die already you miserable fucking wretch

Or shall I say miserable fucking Mitch

[multigraincracker]

4. Libs need to flood school board meetings

to stop the teaching of this Radical Conservative theory. Books and films need to be taken out of libraries too.

[progressoid]

5. "It is not the time to politicize..."

When is the time?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Can't whoever outed Cawthorn dig up some dirt on

that devil incarnate?

[brer cat]

7. There must be a mound of dirt in his history.

Surely someone can get it out to the public.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "the Buffalo terrorist attack shouldn't be politicized"

The white supremacist terrorist who carried out this craven and vicious attack was the one who DID "politicize" it by explicitly invoking a RW political theory espoused by white supremacists, which has now been accepted, approved, and promoted by the leadership of the Republican party.

So calling out "politicized acts" is not "politicizing".

[Harker]

9. Maybe it's because he doesn't meet his party's

purity tests.

[atreides1]

10. Replace Theory

The Republican version of the Wannsee Conference!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference

[Aristus]

11. Of course not...

[BWdem4life]

12. The Great Replacement Theory is actually now a historical fact:

McConnell replaced moderate and liberal SC justices with arch-conservative ones, at a time when the pendulum should have been swinging the other way.

[IronLionZion]

13. Time to replace McConnell with a Dem

this year we can replace Russian Rand Paul with American Charles Booker

[electric_blue68]

15. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[JudyM]

16. Here's hoping for another Rich Strike-like outcome in KY.

[llashram]

17. of course not

he's part of the Grand Old Traitors Party, isn't he?