Move Over Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene Is The Leader Of Congressional GOP

Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t getting so much as a slap on the wrist for her reprehensible comments equating the mask mandates to the murder of six million Jewish people “taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.” Today she tripled down on her anti-Semitic comparison.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has called her comparison “evil lunacy,” and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called her statements “absolute sickness.” But it’s silence from House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

The Bulwark’s Amanda Carpenter said, “Marjorie Taylor Greene can apparently say whatever she wants because the Republican leadership thinks she has a better tie to the Trump base, that they still want to win than they do… she has more power in the Republican party than Kevin McCarthy does… she does whatever she wants.”

CNN’s Chris Cillizza writes, “Republican leaders are effectively condoning Greene’s rhetoric and actions by refusing to take any actual steps to walk away from her.”

Why won’t Republican leaders take any sort of actionable stand against Greene? Because to do so would run the risk of putting them at odds with the base of the GOP and its leader — former President Donald Trump.

See, Greene (like Florida’s Matt Gaetz and North Carolina’s Madison Cawthorn, among others) are the offspring of Trump’s political revolution. They seek out controversy. They say wild — and wildly offensive — things to “own the libs.” And the base responds — sending millions of dollars their way — as they are further fêted by conservative media outlets for their anti-woke messaging.