Chapter 12: Replace the Electorate

 57       “Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight”  Tucker Carlson quoted in   “Transcript: ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Vaccines, Hungary Prime Minister Interview,” Fox News, August 5, 2021, updated August 6, 2021, 0:00–0:03, www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-carlson-tonight-on-vaccines-hungary-prime-minister-interview.

57       Inner-City Church of the Franciscans  Patrícia Wojciechowski, “Ferenciek Tere—the Historic Square in the Heart of Budapest,” We Love Budapest, December 1, 2020, welovebudapest.com/en/article/2020/12/01/ferenciek-tere-the-historic-square-in-the-heart-of-budapest-1/.

57       from the upper floor of the Matild Palace hotel  “Fox News Tonight, Episode Dated 3 August 2021, Filming & Production,” IMDb, accessed January 7, 2025, m.imdb.com/title/tt15157490/locations/.

57       built this hotel  Nathan Kay, “The Five-Star Hotel Inside a UNESCO-Listed Palace,” CNN, October 18, 2023,   www.cnn.com/travel/matild-palace-budapest/index.html.

57       became a crown jewel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire  Kay, “The Five-Star Hotel Inside a UNESCO-Listed Palace,” www.cnn.com/travel/matild-palace-budapest/index.html.

57       Serb assassinated the heir  “Austo-Hungarian Government Has Declared War on Servia, All Europe Prepares for War,” The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, UT), July 28, 1914, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1914-07-28/ed-1/seq-1, 1.

57       Germany lined up . . . and declared war  “World War I Declarations: Topics in Chronicling America,” Library of Congress, accessed January 7, 2025, guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-wwi-declarations.

57       One soldier in Germany’s army  Graham Bowley, “In Hitler’s Birthplace, Soul-Searching Over a Poisonous Past,” New York Times, November 19, 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/world/europe/austria-germany-hitler-birthplace.html?smid=tw-share.

57–58  spent half of his war time  Ian Kershaw, Hitler: A Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), 54. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/500873821?oclcNum=500873821.

58       felt humiliated when Germany surrendered Kershaw, Hitler, 47, 78, 90. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/500873821?oclcNum=500873821.

58       In addition to breaking up the German Empire  Peter Haslinger, “Saint-Germain, Treaty of,” International Encyclopedia of the First World War, December 6, 2016, accessed January 8, 2025, encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/saint-germain-treaty-of/.

58       established the current borders of Hungary Haslinger, “Saint-Germain, Treaty of,” encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/saint-germain-treaty-of/.

58       landlocked nation of nearly ten million people  “Hungary Country Profile,” BBC News, June 4, 2024, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17380792.

58       “The whole point of [Democratic] immigration . . .” “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News, August 2, 2021, accessed via Internet Archive, archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20210803_000000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/2220/end/22, 0:10–0:17.

58       “Replace the population. Get a different outcome.” “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News, August 2, 2021, archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20210803_000000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/2220/end/22,0:15–0:20.

58       “This policy is called the great replacement . . .” “The replacement of . . .” Tucker Carlson quoted in “Tucker Carlson: Joe Biden Revealed Why He Supports Illegal Immigration in 2015, He Wants to Change the Country,” Fox News, September 23, 2021, www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-joe-biden-revealed-why-supports-illegal-immigration-2015-change-the-country.

58       “replacing . . .native-born Americans . . .” House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats, “Renewing the United States’ Commitment to Addressing the Root Causes of Migration from Central America,” YouTube, April 14, 2021, www.youtube.com/live/r8SIkcgfStg?si=_DTaqkPPugpfBJId, 1:45:49–1:45:58.

58       “administration wants complete open borders . . .”  “On Fox Business, Larry Kudlow Allows Sen. Ron Johnson to Push Racist “Replacement” Theory,” Media Matters for America, video, April 15, 2021, www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/fox-business-larry-kudlow-allows-sen-ron-johnson-push-racist-replacement-theory, 3:33–3:43.

58       a June 2022 poll The exact percentages were as follows: 68 percent of Republicans, 42 percent of Independents, and 35 percent of Democrats. Cassie Miller, “SPLC Poll Finds Substantial Support for ‘Great Replacement’ Theory and Other Hard-Right Ideas,” Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), June 1, 2022, www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas/.

58       “has been motivated by progressive and . . .” Miller, “SPLC Poll Finds Substantial Support for ‘Great Replacement’ Theory and Other Hard-Right Ideas,” www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas/.

58       prohibited from voting in national elections . . . for at least a century Virginia Harper-Ho, “Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, the Law and Current Prospects for Change,” Law and Inequality 18, no. 2 (2000), lawandinequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/12_18Law_Ineq2712000.pdf, 282; and Leon E. Aylsworth, “The Passing of Alien Suffrage,” American Political Science Review 25, no. 1 (February 1931), www.jstor.org/stable/1946574, 114.

58–59  documented only thirty cases Douglas Keith et al., “Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions,” Brennan Center for Justice, May 5, 2017, www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/noncitizen-voting-missing-millions.

59       “will soon become a one-party-state”  Patrick Wood Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” manifesto, August 3, 2019, 1. The manifesto is unpaginated, but this quote appears on page 1 of the PDF.

59       “They intend to use open borders, free healthcare . . .”  Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 1.

59       “The heavy Hispanic population in Texas will . . .”  Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 1.

59       “think that the fight for America is already lost”  Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 4.

59       “the fight for America and Europe”  Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 4.

59       “I am honored to head the fight . . .” Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 4.

59       On the morning of August 3, 2019  Alfredo Corchado et al., “‘Every Day Is a Struggle’: El Paso, One Year Later,” Dallas Morning News, July 31, 2020, interactives.dallasnews.com/2020/the-el-paso-mass-shooting-one-year-later/.

59       “Hello FBI” Patrick Crusius post quoted in Corchado et al., “‘Every Day Is a Struggle: El Paso, One Year Later,” interactives.dallasnews.com/2020/the-el-paso-mass-shooting-one-year-later/.

59       grabbed his guns out of his trunk  Corchado et al., “‘Every Day Is a Struggle’: El Paso, One Year Later,” interactives.dallasnews.com/2020/the-el-paso-mass-shooting-one-year-later/.

59       deadliest attack on Latino Americans in recent American history  Corchado et al., “‘Every Day Is a Struggle: El Paso, One Year Later,” interactives.dallasnews.com/2020/the-el-paso-mass-shooting-one-year-later/; and Sofia Sierra, “Five Years After Mass Shooting, El Paso Dedicates a New Memorial to the Victims,” Texas Tribune, August 2, 2024, www.texastribune.org/2024/08/02/texas-el-paso-mass-shooting-walmart-five-year-anniversary-memorial/.

59       “This attack is a response . . .” Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 1.

59       “They are the instigators, not me . . .” Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” 1.