Overview
- Ibram X. Kendi now says the “great replacement” conspiracy is the core ideology of President Trump’s second-term agenda.
- He points to a year of mass deportations as the strongest evidence that current policy follows that belief.
- In a Slate interview about his book Chain of Ideas, he traces the theory from French writer Renaud Camus to leaders worldwide, including Vladimir Putin.
- He argues many academics and political pundits still deny the role of racist propaganda, which he says shields their past attacks on scholars of racism.
- He calls for enforcing laws against politicians who break them, removing conspiracy content online, and expanding anti-racist education, while warning that promoters of replacement ideas are gaining control of media outlets.