There are bigots and extremists on both sides. But one party is able to denounce and punish bigotry; the other party isn’t even trying. jonathanchait writes
, “Weapons of mass Delusion,” shows that Greene holds an even stronger position within the Republican conference than previously known. At one party meeting, she launched a lengthy and impassioned defense of the QAnon conspiracy theory, after which “about a third of her colleagues rose to applaud her as she took her seat among them.”
James Comer, the committee’s ranking member and likely next chairman, told Draper, “If Americans entrust Republicans with the majority next Congress, we look forward to the Steering Committee adding new GOP members to the committee like Representative Greene with energy and a strong interest in partnering with us in our efforts to rein in the unaccountable Swamp and to hold the Biden administration accountable for its many self-inflicted crises that it has unleashed on the American people.
There is a longstanding myth on the right that the conservative movement achieved power and seriousness after William F. Buckley purged the John Birch Society. The reality is closer to the opposite —and was afraid to alienate them, instead trying to placate the group’s huge, nutty membership while gently easing out its even nuttier leader, Robert Welch.
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