Michigan Republican lawmaker doubles down on pushing ‘great replacement theory’

A Michigan Republican lawmaker has doubled down on tweets he made echoing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory, and has lost a committee seat in the state's House in doing so.

State Representative Josh Schriver insists he has been falsely branded a racist despite sharing the bigoted conspiracy theory.

“I’m a White rapper and most conservative voting Representative in Michigan,” he wrote onX/Twitter. “I guess it was only a matter of time before I was falsely labeled a ‘raaacist!’”

He later insisted he was a «Christian» and «not a racist», according to The Daily Beast.

“I’ve worked in inner city schools with autistic children,” he said. “Some politicians refuse to go near these communities. I go anywhere God leads me!”

On Wednesday, Mr Schriver used official Michigan House of Representatives letterhead to issue a statement addressing the «racist plan to replace Whites with non-Whites through illegal immigration to irreversibly warp America's demographics, voting citizens, and national identity to keep power in the hands of a godless regime».

He further wrote that there was an «anti-White agenda» and that talking about it does not make one a racist.

The Great Replacement Theory suggests that Democrats are intentionally flooding the country with non-white immigrants, and that in return those people will all vote for Democrats. Its premise assumes that American «national identity» is inherently connected to whiteness, and that its demographics should always remain primarily white.

Josh Hoskins, a Democratic state representative, introduced a bill after he made the comments condemning the use of racist language by state lawmakers. That bill passed 98-5, with four of the five no votes coming from the chamber's