In the minds of some conspiracists across the country, Jews are behind what has now notoriously been called “the great replacement theory.”
The term was forcefully launched into wider public domain last weekend when an 18-year-old white New York man opened fire in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store, killing 10, all of them Black. The suspect, Payton Gendron, allegedly left behind a 180-page document filled with rants about race and ties to the “great replacement.”
Briefly, “great replacement theory” is the idea that nonwhite people are being brought into the country to join those already here to counter and eventually wipe out the influence of white people.
What political parties believe about what an influx of nonwhite people might bring is one thing. That a cabal is organizing such an influx and setting out to destroy a race in the process is another.
The theory of Jews being behind such a cabal strikes us as the most inconceivable part of the plan. Jews make up 2.4% of the United States population, according to the 2020 census.