June 6, 2022
Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, explained Great Replacement Theory on ABC News in the wake of the tragic shooting in Buffalo. "The magnitude of how much replacement theory has infiltrated [the] spectrum of the right in this country is something we haven't seen before," according to Rosenthal, though he explains that it is not a new ideology. It was prevalent in the U.S. in the 1920's on the far right and has persisted since then, becoming more mainstream in recent years.