The Great Replacement Theory Is Now Our National Policy

In a series of unapologetically racist events this week, the far-right conspiracy theory reached its final boss status.

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On Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, while sitting in the office Stephen A. Smith and Nelly told their audience to “respect,” Donald Trump achieved his goal of turning an obscure white supremacist conspiracy theory into the guiding principle of American politics.

The day’s festivities actually began when Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) appeared on Fox News to discuss the Trump administration’s pause on immigration applications from 19 non-European countries. “Today, one in six people here in the United States is foreign-born,” Cammack whistled, doggedly. “That, quite frankly, is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States. When you have people who, instead of assimilating into our culture, are opting to basically import their culture—many cases, that culture is one of fraud and schemes and scams and violence—you erode the underfoot of what America is all about.”

To be clear, MAGA Melissa McCarthy was not referring to the Native American culture that was replaced through fraud, schemes, scams and violence. I don’t think she’s talking about the culture that used violence to “import” Black people. Nor was she referring to her family lineage, which includes a mother who was arrested for driving under the influence. Then again, DUIs are part of white culture. No, the woman who lives in a county named after an indigenous word in a state with a Spanish name appeared on a television station owned by an immigrant to express her fears that the most violent, thieving culture in the history of the world is threatened by people with upper lips, seasoning and human compassion.

But this was just the opening ceremony for the “great replacement theory’s” coming-out party. During a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Trump explained why he’s sending ICE agents after his nemesis Ilhan Omar‘s Somali constituents in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. He didn’t allege that they were committing crimes or that they were more likely to be in the U.S. illegally. He deployed 100 immigration officers to participate in raids because he simply doesn’t like them and the country they’re from.

After Trump called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “seriously retarded” and noted that Omar “probably came into the U.S.A. illegally,” his fellow Republicans literally applauded. They weren’t capitulating or performing for Trump.

This is their policy now.