For months, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been dog-whistling to supporters of extremist far-right ideologies and wild conspiracy theories like QAnon. On Wednesday night time, on the fourth Republican presidential debate, Ramaswamy went full tilt: After blasting the three different debaters for turning on former president Donald Trump, Ramaswamy argued, with out proof, that the January 6 Capitol riot was an inside job, the 2020 presidential election was stolen, the federal government had lied about 9/11, and the “deep state” was answerable for all these items.

Then, Ramaswamy claimed that the “great replacement theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.” The great replacement theory is a widely-debunked conspiracy that the liberal institution, together with a cabal of “global elites,” is encouraging the immigration of individuals of shade with the intention to “replace” white voters.

Immediately, white supremacists on-line celebrated the reference to the racist and antisemitic conspiracy.

Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist influencer who was livestreaming his response to the controversy on the choice streaming platform Rumble, appeared visibly shocked that Ramaswamy went up to now. He watched open-mouthed as Ramaswamy continued to spice up wild conspiracies. “Let’s go,” a visibly delighted Fuentes advised his hundreds of viewers.

A clip of Fuentes’ response was posted on X by Irish antisemitic and anti-immigrant influencer Keith O’Brien, identified on-line as Keith Woods, with the remark: “Time to mainstream this discussion across the West.”

The submit shortly racked up tens of hundreds of likes and shares, together with from Ramaswamy’s personal official X account. “Repost by Vivek, very cool,” O’Brien wrote on his Telegram channel. “We love Vivek.”

“When someone like Ramaswamy promotes great replacement and other conspiracy theories, he’s platforming a violent and paranoid ideology to a mainstream audience. It’s clear that he speaks the language of conspiracy theory believers, antisemites, and extremists—many of these same people have embraced his candidacy,” Mike Rothschild, an writer who writes about conspiracy theories and extremists tells WIRED. “And he’s speaking to these people not to help his DOA campaign, but to cement them as his future base for whatever he does next in this world. It’s a dangerous and cynical ideology.”

Ramaswamy subsequently deleted the submit from his feed, however inside minutes of Ramaswamy boosting the conspiracies, verified accounts on X and main far-right influencers on platforms like Telegram had been celebrating. “Vivek says ALL the RIGHT things,” John Sabel, a QAnon promoter often known as QAnon John, wrote on his Telegram channel.