Elon Musk told Fox News' Larry Kudlow last week that Democrats support the safety net programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they can lure undocumented immigrants to America and get their illegal votes. It's based upon the previously fringe "great replacement theory," which Musk apparently believes justifies taking a chainsaw to the federal government. It's nonsense, of course. Undocumented immigrants cannot collect any of those benefits despite the fact that they routinely pay into them. Musk has it entirely backward. And, no, they can't vote either.
The question now is just how far into the Trump administration this "great replacement" ideology goes. It's clear that top adviser Stephen Miller believes it, and it's quite likely a number of others do as well. Considering that this weekend Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, under the pretense that we are being "invaded," you have to wonder when they are going to find a way to declare full "wartime" powers. Who knows? Maybe they'll find a way to use the "great replacement theory" to round up their domestic political enemies as well. After all, they believe they're providing "material support" for alien enemies with their support for "entitlements." (I'm only half kidding...)
