The GOP: It's Marjorie Taylor Greene's Party Now

[Teddy Beer]

By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist, NYT

Steve King, the Republican former congressman from Iowa, must feel robbed. Two years ago, he was stripped of all his committee assignments after asking, in an interview with The New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” The Republican Party threw its weight behind King’s primary challenger, and he was whisked off the national stage, no longer to embarrass colleagues who prefer that racist demagogy be performed with enough finesse to allow for plausible deniability.

Since then, standards have changed. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, is every bit as bigoted as King, and 10 times as unhinged. By now, you’ve surely heard her theory that California wildfires might have been caused by a space laser controlled by Jewish bankers. That wasn’t Greene’s first foray into anti-Semitism; in 2018 she shared a notorious white nationalist video in which a Holocaust denier claimed that “Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation.”

Recently, Greene met with a far-right British commentator, Katie Hopkins, who has described migrants as “cockroaches” and said she doesn’t care if they die. Greene told her, “I would love to trade you for some of our white people here that have no appreciation for our country.” She described the results of the 2018 midterms as “an Islamic invasion of our government.” Greene endorsed calls for the execution of prominent Democrats and agreed with Facebook posts claiming that the Parkland and Sandy Hook school shootings were hoaxes. She harassed one of the Parkland massacre’s young survivors.

As it happens, this week House Republicans are seeking to punish a prominent woman in their ranks — but it’s not Greene. A big chunk of the House Republican caucus is reportedly trying to oust Liz Cheney of Wyoming from leadership because she voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop.html

Yes, in the Party of the Batshit Maniacal, the Merely-Deranged Woman is Queen.

[Chainfire]

1. What will be really interesting is to see whether it works out for them. Who knows, it may....

I she were a school teacher, or a county or state employee, HR would have put her ass in the street on her first week.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. The LOONY PARTY would be a good rebeanding.

[moondust]

3. The party of...

rising Republican star and Jewish Space Laser expert Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Gone With The Whigs - coming soon to a political graveyard near you!

[ck4829]

4. K&R