Recent Republican initiatives reveal an insidious systematic and escalating grand campaign aimed at a demographic transformation and even ethnic cleansing in the United States. It is becoming increasingly clear that the conservative republicans are advancing a scary national program of white people first. By turning women into mere breeding vessels by denying abortions, and by callously banning immigrants from Central America, an ugly consistent theme appears of demographic politics intended to reduce the number of people of color and increase the number of whites.

Peter M. Haas

Emeritus professor of political science, UMass Amherst