Marjorie Taylor Greene's Latest Outrage

There she goes again. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is once more in the political limelight with comments that made even some in her own Republican Party gasp.

Last month, the conservative congresswoman and Donald Trump loyalist compared mask mandates and vaccination efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic to measures taken against Jews in Europe during the Nazi regime. Greene called businesses that insist on vaccinations for their employees “just like the Nazis [who] forced Jewish people to wear a gold star.” She said that attempts to push for mask mandates and mandatory vaccination of politicians in the Capitol Building were like the dark days of Hitler’s Third Reich, when Jews were “put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.”

House and Senate GOP leaders scorned Greene’s comments while doing nothing about their Republican colleague’s seemingly endless pursuit of attention and campaign cash. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “Marjorie is wrong and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust to wearing masks is appalling.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Greene’s latest stunt “outrageous” and “reprehensible.”

Still, Greene prattles on with her incessant spiel of conspiracy canards and her fealty to Donald Trump’s Big Lie of a stolen election. While Greene made noises about Nazis, her own Republican Party on May 29 blocked an inquiry into the causes of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a right-wing gaggle of Trump supporters including white supremacists.

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