It's All In The Numbers

 A majority of Trump voters believe "great replacement theory." Sixty-one percent of them. This of course makes sense, since fifty-three percent of Republicans believe that the twice-impeached former game show host won the 2020 election. If that first bit of muddled conspiracy though sounds familiar, it was at the core of the manifesto written by the loon with a gun who killed ten people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. If you're still stuck on the question of how other immigrants could "replace" the immigrants who claim European heritage, then you're probably not part of this demographic. Just like you understand that the number of votes both popular and electoral are the deciding factor in a presidential election. But perhaps to muddy the waters a little further with mathematics, more than seventy million people voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Sixty-one percent of that is forty-two million and change. For comparison's sake, that would put them in the ballpark of the population of Ukraine. 

Keeping in mind that, using the loon with a gun as an example, there are those who were not registered or did not vote in the 2020 election, so the number of "great replacement theory" believers is necessarily larger than the suggested sample here. I know. More math, but since the Buffalo shooter was not even eighteen years old when he got this dreck into his head, it stands to reason that there are plenty more young people scrambling around with these twisted thoughts in their heads. 

Some of them have cable TV shows. 

Tucker Carlson, a young man who happens to be old enough to vote and have his own highly rated Faux News show, has been insisting that Democrats are bringing in dark-skinned immigrants with the expressed intent of replacing the lily white electorate. Back in 2021, Tuck Everlasting exclaimed, “In political terms, this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.” 

That's a little like the pot calling the kettle hysterical. 

This is where I leave you with another set of numbers: Two percent of the respondents to a Scientific American survey believed the earth is flat. Crazy, right? The number of those who have taken up arms to kill us round-earthers? Zero.