Donald Trump made clear on the PhiladelphiaĀ debateĀ stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, the basis of his run for office. Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation. This time around, Trump has madeĀ his primary message, the so-calledĀ Great Replacement Theory (GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states.

According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nationā€™s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, asĀ verminĀ or diseases.

GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-calledĀ ā€œBlack Horror on the Rhine.ā€Ā In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:

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    I mean, I didnā€™t read the article,

    Good, stop right there and before you go ahead and make a fool of yourself, read it.

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      Theyā€™re head is jammed WAY up their own ass. They post from reddthat.com which doesnā€™t support down voting so they donā€™t get their feelings hurt posting conservative opinions all over Lemmy. I bet they have no clue that nearly every post of theirs is universally hated if it expressed a political opinion.

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        Yeah I read the rest of their response and their response to another poster calling replace theory ā€œa factā€ and realized how willfully ignorant they are. I donā€™t even need to know where they normally post.