Fox News host and longtime Trump pal Jeanine Pirro has come under fire by Media Matters and Salon for suggesting that Democrats hate Trump and his supporters because their ‘plot to remake America’ has been disrupted.
During a Wednesday appearance on “The Todd Starnes” show on Fox Nation, Pirro said:
“I’ve often wondered, who do they hate more?” Starnes asked Pirro. “Do they hate Donald Trump? Or do they hate the people who put him into office?”
“Well, they hate Donald Trump. He’s the one they want to get rid of, because people like you and me who put him into office — their plan and their plot to remake America is to bring in the illegals, change the way the voting occurs in this country, give them licenses,” said Pirro. “They get to vote, maybe once, maybe twice, maybe three times, and you know, you’ve got motor-voter registration on the day of the election. You’ve got people with — We’ve got voter rolls that haven’t been purged of dead people in years where the Democrats have resisted that.”
“Think about it,” Pirro added. “It is a plot to remake America — to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the Democrats.“
According to Salon, Pirro’s comments were quickly spun into an ’embrace of the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory’ used by the El Paso, Texas shooter.
Pirro’s words mirrored the rhetoric of the accused El Paso shooter, who wrote in a racist screed that “this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” The shooter directly echoed President Trump‘s repeated warnings of “an invasion” at the border ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. According to this theory, which has become a core tenet of white supremacist ideology of white supremacy, nonwhite immigrants are somehow “replacing” white people.
“The [El Paso] suspect wrote that his views ‘predate Trump,’ as if anticipating the political debate that would follow the blood bath,” Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear wrote in the New York Times after the massacre. “But if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.” –Salon
Yet another case of wrongthink. We can only imagine, applying the same logic, that Bernie Sanders is embracing the murder of tens of millions by espousing socialist views.
Via Media Matters:
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