Tucker Carlson’s Great Replacement Theory Is Spectacularly Wrong

May 28, 2022

This response to GRT is only partly correct. FWIW I favor legal immigration. We’d better, because if we don’t there won’t be a USA sooner than you think. See Elon Musk’s recent comments about birth rates in developed countries. It’s also true that Hispanic immigrants, which is largely who recent immigrants are, turn out not to be loyal Democratic voters.

Nevertheless, it is true that Democrats have been talking up for years the potential of immigration, legal and illegal, to change the racial makeup of the US population, resulting in a long-term shift toward a permanent Democrat majority. A theory can be wrong and still receive enthusiastic Democrat support, as we’ve seen in so many areas. As to welfare benefits attracting many immigrants — of course that’s true, especially if you include the benefits of being allowed to work 80 hour weeks and actually keep most of what you make, which might be as much as hundreds of dollars per week. More than you would be able to make in whatever mobbed-up place you’re fleeing. Welfare benefits can shift how immigrants vote over time, but I gather it takes one or two generations. Welfare needs to be re-reformed. So do our immigration laws. Whether we will do this is doubtful.