Vivek Ramaswamy Retweets Video of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes Celebrating His Promotion of Great Replacement Theory
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy promoted Great Replacement Theory at the primary debate on Wednesday before liking and retweeting a a video of infamous neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes celebrating as much on X.
“The Great Replacement Theory is not some grand, right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform” declared Ramaswamy on stage Wednesday.
While there are variations of Great Replacement Theory — which suggests that white, native-born citizens are being replaced by foreigners — it is popular in white supremacist circles in the United States.
“Since many white supremacists, particularly those in the United States, blame Jews for non-white immigration to the U.S. the replacement theory is now associated with antisemitism,” asserts the Anti-Defamation League in an explainer. “The night before the August 2017 the Unite the Right rally, white supremacists, marching across the University of Virginia campus, shouted, ‘Jews will not replace us,’ and ‘You will not replace us.'”
Fuentes hosted a live stream showing himself reacting to the debate in real-time on Wednesday night. When Ramaswamy started talking about Great Replacement Theory, Fuentes’s jaw dropped. “Let’s go!” he shouted with a smile plastered on his face.
Ramaswamy then retweeted and liked the video of Fuentes’s reaction, which had been posted by anti-Semitic YouTuber Keith Woods.
Vivek Ramaswamy retweeted known white supremacist Nick Fuentes celebrating Vivek’s mention of The Great Replacement theory, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that got Jews murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania.
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— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) December 7, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) likes post of Nick Fuentes saluting him for mentioning the demographic replacement of White people.
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Both the like and the retweet were rescinded in short order.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Ramaswamy campaign, told Mediaite that “it was an inadvertent retweet in a flurry of retweets during a staff takeover that was un-retweeted moments later.”
“This is a non-story,” she argued.
Ramaswamy’s promotion of the Great Replacement Theory and boosting of Fuentes comes at a time when anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise. In New York City, there was a 214% year-over-year increase in hate crimes committed against Jews in October.
