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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Taylor Greene exposes GOP establishment's lack of power
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was blasted for antisemitic comments by her party's top congressional leaders earlier this week.
Two days later, she was celebrating her birthday in front of adoring fans at an event in Georgia.
The split-screen contrast says a lot about where the Republican Party finds itself. And Greene's rise underlines the GOP establishment's impotence when it comes to restraining her - even if it wants to.
The latest furor began when the first-term congresswoman drew a parallel between the treatment of Jews at the hands of the Nazis and a supermarket's decision to add a special logo to the name-badge of vaccinated employees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-memo-marjorie-taylor-greene-exposes-gop-establishments-lack-of-power/ar-AAKw3mC
Because that's what your base is today Republicans, racists and anti Semites.
ananda
(28,923 posts)But now they are open and egregious about it.
Perhaps the establishment doesn't want to look that bad
even though they have always actually been that bad.
SWBTATTReg
(22,226 posts)in attempting to pass legislation can do so, w/ republican help (since republicans don't have their act together). Moscow 'no neck' Mitch has no teeth to enforce anything in his conference. Zero.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)yonder
(9,687 posts)sewing on a foot here, a hand there till they had transformed that corpse into something they thought could pass for a party. Then the storm came and charged their ill-thought creation into something much more sinister and entirely out of their control.
Yep.