Cheney says GOP has ‘enabled’ racism. Here’s what she’s talking about. [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/18/229:00 AM

By Aaron Blake, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 17, 2022

After a mass shooting apparently driven by racism in Buffalo this weekend, a former member of House GOP leadership didn’t mince words.

“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) tweeted Monday morning. “History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”

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Cheney’s comments come after the tragedy in Buffalo has forced something of a reckoning about how the racist “great replacement theory” — that is, the idea that immigrants are replacing native-born Americans in some undesirable and politically calculated way — has gained traction on the right.

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