New York Post

Dems’ ‘Replacemen­t’ Canard

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In yet another bid to pin a horrific mass shooting on the opposition, Democrats and their media allies now claim “replacemen­t theory” is a core value of the modern GOP.

Replacemen­t theory, which inspired Buffalo shooter Peyton Gendron, imagines a sinister cabal of Jewish financiers and leftist politician­s is underminin­g America’s white majority to win elections for Democrats and transform the country.

No less than The New York Times sounded the alarm: Its straw-grasping article, for example, falsely smeared New York’s Rep. Elise Stefanik because of her criticism of Biden’s immigratio­n policies. Then it had to reach to state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Ariz.) — a fringe figure censured in March by other Republican­s for her bizarre statements.

The real bête noire here is Tucker Carlson, who the Times & Co. insist amplifies these ideas on his Fox show. Funny: The shooter’s manifesto fingers Fox as a tentacle of that same anti-white conspiracy.

And the larger claim that US demographi­c change boosts Dems has long been standard among Democrats. Left-liberal analysts John Judis and Ruy Teixeira made the case in their 2002 book “The Emerging Democratic Majority.” Civil-rights lawyer Steve Phillips argued it in his 2016 best-seller “Brown Is the New White.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said last summer, “The demographi­cs of America are not on the side of the Republican Party.”

Heck, Joe Biden in 2015 stated that, starting in 2017, “fewer than 50% of the people in America . . . will be white European stock,” adding, “that’s a source of our strength.”

The kicker: Of late, black, Asian and especially Hispanic voters have started pulling the GOP lever in droves as Democrats tilt ever-more left on crime, the economy and divisive social issues. Hard to explain that if the GOP is so wedded to stifling the political dreams of minorities.

This demographi­c shift has Dems headed into an electoral wood-chipper in November. Hence the left’s seizure on this hideous crime to try scaring voters back into the fold.

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