
This may be the most dangerous idea in American politics
CNN
Author Yascha Mounk fears an idea he says is making conservative Whites resentful and promotes a dystopian future where Americans will be forever split between two mutually hostile tribes.
Those who subscribe to the theory -- many of them White conservatives -- believe a secret group of elites are using non-White immigrants and Black people to intermarry with and "outbreed" White people "until they no longer exist."
But there is a variant of replacement theory that has also moved into the mainstream -- and it's celebrated by people on the left as well, says Yascha Mounk, author of a provocative new book, "The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure."

More than two decades ago, on January 24, 2004, I landed in Baghdad as a legal adviser, assigned an office in what was then known as the Green Zone. It was raining and cold, and my duffle bag was thrown into a puddle off the C-130 aircraft that had just done a corkscrew dive to reach the runway without risk of ground fire. Young American soldiers greeted me as we piled into a vehicle, sped out of the airport complex and then along a road called the “Highway of Death” due to car bombs and snipers.












