From manifestos to mainstream: Understanding the far-Right ‘Great Replacement’ theory

Charlottesville 2017. White nationalists in white polo shirts with crew cuts and torches shouting blood and soil and Jews will not replace us. The Unite the Right rally eight months into Donald Trump's first term revealed the dark underbelly of our politics.During the rally, an extremist intentionally crashed his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing a woman. We quickly sought to make sense of this hatred and this violence. But more specifically, what exactly did they mean about being replaced.Ther ...