The Great Gatsby & The Great Replacement

There is a scene in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby where Tom Buchanan — the All-American aristocrat — regurgitates an early version of what has come to be known as The Great Replacement theory. This theory is based on the belief that global elites are conspiring to replace white Europeans with mass migrating — usually Muslim — populations from the Middle East and Africa. The term ‘The Great Replacement’ was…