Right-wing forces organized a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which they called the Unite the Right March.
The participants chanted racist slogans and raised Nazi slogans, as well as carrying semi-automatic rifles, and Confederate flags. They also raised anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant slogans.
The most common slogan was "Jews will not replace us."
The march's goals included uniting the American white nationalist movement, and opposing the removal of a statue of General Robert Lee, commander of the Southern forces in the Civil War that ended black slavery in the United States.
Clashes broke out the next day, between opponents and participants in the march, which resulted in the killing of one woman when a white right-wing extremist stormed the crowds of peaceful protesters.
Then former President Donald Trump raised a storm of condemnation when he said that the responsibility for the violence fell on both sides, before adding, "There were good people on both sides."
The following year, inside a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a white man with a history of circulating anti-Semitic posts on the Internet shot 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant "invaders" to enter the United States.
In 2019, another white man, angry at what he called the "Hispanic invasion of Texas," opened fire on Walmart shoppers in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people, and later told police that he sought to kill Mexicans.
The perpetrators of these three incidents were united by a belief in the replacement theory, which claims that Western elites, often manipulated by Jews, want to "replace" white Americans and weaken their capabilities.
Trump has lived all seven decades of his life in the Manhattan area of New York City.
I have lived for quite some time in New York, and I imagine that it is difficult for anyone to be a racist and continue to live in Manhattan and New York, and no person can be successful in any field if the suspicion of racism is known about him.
And last weekend, an 18-year-old high school student broadcast live his shooting of 13 people, 10 of whom were killed in a supermarket, most of his black customers in Buffalo, New York.
Hours before his crime, the suspect wrote online that he was motivated by the "Great Replacement" theory, the same racist idea that white citizens are being deliberately replaced by immigrants, Muslims and blacks of color in North America and continental Europe.
This theory was not a mainstay among the accepted political theories in the United States, and it was always on the far fringes of the American right, and no one cared about it for years.
Today, replacement theory is in vogue and has strong advocates in the right-wing media and in conservative political circles where the theory has been borrowed and remixed to attract the angry and fundraising to stand up to what they see as a tireless effort to transform white and Christian America.
Since the emergence of candidate Donald Trump in 2015, a new trend has emerged printing these ideas popular among Republicans as they have been spoken out loud in congressional hearings, echoed in GOP campaign ads, and embraced by a growing group of right-wing candidates such as Elise Stefanik, who is third The most important position between the Republicans of the House of Representatives, and a number of media personalities, led by broadcaster Tucker Carlson, the most watched on Fox News.
Trump's accession to power 6 years ago was written as a new birth certificate for the American and non-American extreme right-wing racist currents.
Although there is a state of political polarization and a sharp societal division outside Washington on all internal issues such as health care, gay rights, abortion, carrying arms, and many others, these divisions remain far from obstructing the American democratic process due to the clarity and strictness of the rules of the political game through the sanctification of the constitution, which established equations that move away On violence as a means of resolving political differences.
However, what American society has witnessed since the beginning of the Trump phenomenon, and its adoption of the slogan “Make America Great Again” to be understood by his supporters as a call to “make America white, Christian again.”
At the same time, a quick look at Trump's record does not leave a candidate or president, anyone but the most convinced that we are in front of a racist president, but the most characteristic of this president's racism is that it is by choice, that is, he may not be a traditional racist person who believes in the transcendence of people Al-Bayda is in his condition by necessity, but rather he is a racist by choice to serve his interests and political goals.
Trump has lived all seven decades of his life in the Manhattan area of New York City.
Personally, I lived for quite some time in New York, and I imagine it would be hard for anyone to be a racist and continue to live in Manhattan and New York.
People of no race, gender, color, or religion have a majority in Manhattan.
Everyone there are minorities in one way or another, and no person can succeed in any field, let alone the life of business, clamor, entertainment and television if the suspicion of racism is known about him.
Trump could not achieve all the fame he achieved before reaching the White House due to great successes and wide failures and be a racist.
Trump would not have lived and lived in Manhattan if he was a racist.
On the other hand, during the last half century, the dynamics of American society, with which nearly 60 million immigrated from mainly Catholic Central American countries and mainly non-Christian Asia, pushed the United States and its society to be more diverse and different than many believe.
The population of America is currently approximately 334 million, of whom 60.4% are white, compared to 18.3% of Hispanics (mainly Mexican Catholics), 13.4% of black Africans, and 5.9% of Asians, and the rest is diverse.
At the same time, the proportion of Protestants decreased from 50% in 2003 to 36% in 2017, while the proportion of Christians as a whole shrank from 83% to 72% in the same period.
Many white supremacists, Protestants, refuse to acknowledge America's new reality, and see these changes as an existential threat to themselves and the America in their collective imagination.
Trump's rude racist and fascist rhetoric against all white non-Christians was not enough to discourage Republicans from choosing to represent them. Rather, it appears that they were the direct and most important reason for his victory in the White House in 2016. Trump adopted a demagogic political discourse that tickles the emotions of citizens in order to gain their loyalty Trump has succeeded once, and he may succeed again in two years.
Yes, the theory of the "Great Replacement" came out by the French theorist and political activist Renaud Camus more than a decade ago, and it is summed up in the fact that European countries and their white Christian culture are being replaced by the indigenous white population with new arrivals from Africans and Muslims.
However, Trump's adoption of her gave her the kiss of life and moved her to the heart of the American and global political debate.