Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and a former member of G.O.P. leadership in the House, on Monday called out her party’s leaders for enabling the spread of white nationalism after a gunman who believed racist ideology killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket.
“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” Ms. Cheney wrote on Twitter. “History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Her statement came as Republicans in Congress were angrily pushing back against accusations that their language and actions have perpetuated the kind of racism and xenophobia that were apparently behind the massacre.
Yet as of Monday morning, none of them had spoken out against the racist “white replacement theory” that motivated the killings or the white nationalism undergirding it.
Some Republican lawmakers have openly promoted white nationalism.