Kootenai County GOP embraces promoters of far-right 'Pizzagate' and 'Great Replacement' conspiracy t

Last week, when Brittany Pettibone stood before the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, the self-described “American nationalist” said a commitment to nonviolence separates her and her fiancé from the suspect in the March 15 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50 people.

“If you’ve read the manifesto – I’m not sure, maybe some of you have – the Christchurch shooter specifically said he does not believe in campaigning for political change through peaceful means,” Pettibone, 26, told the GOP committee during a meeting in a Coeur d’Alene courthouse. “He said, ‘We can’t do that anymore. The only way we can win is through violent means.’ ”

Pettibone and her fiancé, Martin Sellner, don’t openly advocate violence. But in his manifesto, the Christchurch shooting suspect wrote that he was inspired to murder Muslims by an idea that the couple champions.

They call it “The Great Replacement” – a racist notion that immigrants are systematically squeezing white people out of existence and wrecking the cultural identity of the West. Pettibone, who lives in Post Falls, has even raised the specter of a “white genocide.”

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