Jamelle Bouie’s Opinion:

It should go without saying that the “great replacement” is idiotic. There is no “open border.” There is no effort to “replace” the white population of the United States. Racial diversity is not a plot against the nation’s political institutions. And the underlying assumption of the “great replacement” — that, until recently, the United States was a racially and culturally homogenous nation — is nonsense.

Musk is especially preoccupied with the racial makeup of the country and the alleged deficiency of nonwhites in important positions.

On X, Musk recently pinned a post to a slickly produced video that purports to expose a “Democrat open borders plan to entrench single-party rule,” in which Democrats shepherd millions of people into the United States and “keep them in the country at all costs.” Musk says, “This is actually happening!” The video had, at the time of this writing, well over 50 million views.  (Bouie doesn’t say if AI was involved in the video).

Musk is far from the first person to push the “great replacement” theory. It was featured in ads released by Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a top Republican in the House. “Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” said one version of the advertisement. “Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”

The foregoing is from the opinion column of Jamelle Bouie on March 23, 2024*. Nan’s concern is that this apparently wild and wooly man [Musk] has great status with NASA and is a power in our world of newer and newer occupiers and agents of space and wealth.  What will the outcome of this become? Scary.

*N.Y. Times..