I still remember, as a kid, not wanting to go to sleep after watching on television Don Siegel’s classic horror film, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” While humans slept at night, alien pods grew into the likeness of the humans and replaced them. That is the real GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY! And no one, neither Democrats nor Republicans, is advocating bringing in the pod people to replace Real Americans of either party!
According to the SPCL, a favorite organization of the Left,
“Nearly 7 in 10 Republicans surveyed agree to at least some extent that demographic changes in the United States are deliberately driven by liberal and progressive politicians attempting to gain political power by ‘replacing more conservative white voters.’”
— https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas
In a political context, the terms “replacing” and “replacement” are silly, and the Charlottesville chant that “They shall not replace us” was a sign of ignorance, if not outright stupidity. No one is talking about subtracting voters. No one will be removed and replaced. It’s all about ADDING voters. The Biden administration is, indeed, facilitating the entrance from Mexico into the U.S. of massive numbers of would-be immigrants, and flying thousands of them in the middle of the night, night after night, to cities around the country. If they eventually become citizens, they will likely become Democratic voters. As Brookings Institute fellow and political science professor Gabriel Sanchez pointed out last year,
“recent polling of Latinos suggests that immigration could provide Democrats with an important opportunity to mobilize Latino voters. However, this will be dependent on Democrats leaning in on this issue and making the distinction between their agenda on immigration and that of the GOP much clearer to the Latino electorate.”
It’s not crazy or paranoid or racist for Republicans to think that the Democratic Party establishment is intently interested in increasing the number of Democratic voters by importing and naturalizing them. Both parties, after all, are constantly looking for demographic electoral advantage. That, for example, is what the great debate over gerrymandering is all about: Will the national congressional electoral map favor the Democrats or the Republicans? The more Democratic Latino voters are registered, the greater the odds that Democrats will win elections. And winning is, after all, the name of the game for both political parties. “Replace” is the wrong verb to use. But to “increase,” “augment,” or “supplement” the share of the vote received by one’s own political party is the key to the electoral game that the politicians of BOTH PARTIES are playing as if their professional lives depend on it, because they actually do!