Miller mentioned how Fox News host Tucker Carlson promoted the “Great Replacement” theory. The idea, which is popular among white supremacists and has inspired real world violence, holds that white Americans are being replaced by immigrants and other minority groups. It has been seized upon by extremist groups like the American Identity Movement and Generation Identity.
The racist narrative has also been pushed by Arizona politicians, including Flagstaff Republican Wendy Rogers, who has become a hero to white nationalists and was censured by the state Senate this month after she spoke to a white nationalist conference in February.
Both Gosar and Rogers have cozied up to a group of white nationalists known as “groypers”, who strive for their ideas to become a part of the Republican mainstream. In 2021, Gosar was the first elected official to speak at the America First Political Action Conference. This year, the conference saw speeches by Gosar, Rogers and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The event, known as AFPAC and meant to be an alternative to the mainstream conservative CPAC conference, is hosted by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Gosar, whose use of social media got him in trouble, has a history of posting far-right memes on Twitter, some that he even swiftly deleted last year that had ties to Neo-Nazis.