Barbecue by Kevin McCarthy after Marjorie Taylor Greene in contrast sporting masks to the Holocaust

“This woman is mentally ill, “Greene said, referring to Pelosi. “You know, we can look back at a time in history when people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens – so much so that they were put on trains and in gas chambers of the Nazis were brought to Germany and Nancy Pelosi speaks of this kind of abuse. “

In fact it isn’t. Minor public health inconvenience and genocidal mass murder are different. We could even say that a small inconvenience for some reason and a mass murder for some reason are even different. People were pulled from their homes, torn from their families, tortured, starved, murdered. Marjorie Taylor Greene may have to reapply her makeup more often than she’d like.

“You can never compare health restrictions with yellow stars, gas chambers and other atrocities committed by the Nazis. Such comparisons harm the Holocaust and defile America’s political speech, ”tweeted the American Jewish Congress. “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has to withdraw immediately and apologize. “

Instead, Greene told reporters, “I stand by all of what I say. … I didn’t say anything wrong. “She continued,” I think every sane Jewish person didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany, and every sane Jewish person doesn’t like what happens with arrogant mask mandates and arrogant vaccination policies. “

Jewish people have the highest vaccine adoption rate of any religious group in the United States, and while data on the wearing of masks by Jewish people in the United States is hard to come by, Israel only recently ended a mandate on outdoor masks after achieving higher vaccination rates than achieved in the USA. Does Greene call the vast majority of Jews irrational? It would honestly be branded, but who knows with her.

The thing is, we know Greene is a terrible person. Happy, loud, deliberately awful. That’s all her fancy. Notably, she continues to be a respected member of the House Republican Conference. The Democrats had to remove the committee’s duties from her in order to encourage violence against her political opponents and to label the mass murder of children as a joke. The Republicans were unwilling to take action against her for this, and now that she is comparing public health precautions to the Holocaust, McCarthy is not even offering the feeble tea convictions and “I’ll speak to her” promises made in January . Kevin McCarthy is not a leader despite the “leader” in his title. He is a supporter and he has decided that Greene is the direction of the party he is following. Cheney, who condemned Greene’s remarks, is no longer in the Republican leadership of the House for – akin to – denouncing efforts to overthrow the 2020 elections.

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks for the Republican Party regardless of a handful of Republicans who condemn any particular comment it makes. The party has repeatedly refused to reject it, and so the party owns and belongs to it.