Blistering hometown editorial against Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Editorial-How-low-Ms-Stefanik-16465746.php


Back in 2017, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Va., carrying torches and chanting, “You will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.” Decent Americans recoiled at the undeniable echo of Nazi Germany.

That rhetoric has been resonating ever since in the right wing, repackaged lately in what’s known as “replacement theory,” espoused by conservative media figures like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. And it has seeped into the mainstream political discourse in the Capital Region, where Rep. Elise Stefanik has adapted this despicable tactic for campaign ads.

Ms. Stefanik isn’t so brazen as to use the slogans themselves; rather, she couches the hate in alarmist anti-immigrant rhetoric that’s become standard fare for the party of Donald Trump. And she doesn’t quite attack immigrants directly; instead, she alleges that Democrats are looking to grant citizenship to undocumented immigrants in order to gain a permanent liberal majority, or, as she calls it, a “permanent election insurrection.” Quite a choice of words, of course, considering that the country is still suffering the aftershocks of the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington by supporters of Mr. Trump who tried to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

The Harvard-educated Ms. Stefanik surely knows the sordid history and context of this. The idea of stoking racial, ethnic, and religious tribalism among voters dates back to this country’s earliest days. At various times, politicians have warned that Catholics, Jews, or Muslims were out to change the “culture,” or that Irish, Italian, Asian or eastern European immigrants would take the jobs — to “replace” white, Protestant Americans. Mr. Trump made attacking Mexicans and Muslims a hallmark of his 2016 campaign, his presidency, and his current rants from the political sidelines.

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[dchill]

1. Ms. Stefanik needs replacing.

[jrthin]

2. It seems Ms. Kathleen Rice should get a similar

Editorial by one of NY's paper. We wait....

[brush]

3. She's a nasty piece of work. She campaigned as a moderate...

to first get elected to Congress but when Liz Cheney came under fire, she dropped all of her moderate stances and moved sharply to the right to make a grab at House leadership.

Nothing stands in the way of her ambitions.