Today’s Flashpoint: Marjorie Taylor Greene

In November, the earlier not known Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Georgia’s open up 14th Congressional District seat in a landslide. Now, just after being in business a lot less than a month, she is the item of a detest campaign by the Democrats, who are demanding that she be stripped of all committee assignments, and preferably kicked out of the Household. It is described that the Democrats’ push arm is trying to make Greene the facial area of the Republican Bash.

What precisely has she performed? Greene’s Fb website page evidently is a disaster. Even just before the election, Politico investigated Greene on behalf of the Democratic Party and discovered Fb video clips that expressed “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic sights.” That was Kevin McCarthy’s characterization, not Nancy Pelosi’s, and Greene was denounced final June by the Republicans’ House leadership. But Georgia’s voters apparently were unimpressed.

A lot more offenses have occur to gentle. 6 times ago, CNN reported breathlessly:

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene regularly indicated help for executing outstanding Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before becoming elected to Congress, a CNN KFile review of hundreds of posts and responses from Greene’s Facebook website page exhibits.

This is based on Greene’s possessing “liked” responses on her Fb page that accused Democrats like Nancy Pelosi of treason, and contemplated the penalties therefor. So she is in the same group with a terrific a lot of Democrats, who baselessly accused President Trump of treason for four years. Even though some of what Greene did is definitely indefensible, CNN’s viewpoint is pretty various from ours. So:

In one particular Fb article from April 2018, Greene wrote conspiratorially about the Iran Offer, a single of former President Barack Obama’s signature international coverage achievements.

Heh. I am on Greene’s side on this one. She gave this quotation to CNN:

About the years, I’ve had groups of persons control my internet pages. Quite a few posts have been preferred. Numerous posts have been shared. Some did not depict my views. Specially the types that CNN is about to spread across the net.

It is challenging to choose that reaction significantly. Continue to, I suspect that Greene’s major offense is her stalwart defense of President Trump, and her vote, alongside with numerous other Dwelling associates, to reject the Electoral College or university ballots of two states. It is her unabashed Trumpism that the Democrats are most keen to discredit.

Greene is currently going through calls to go away the Residence for her position in fanning the flames of the Capitol insurrection before this month just after she objected to the election certification procedure and falsely insisted that Trump would keep on being president.

After Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez known as on Greene to be expelled from the Home for her role in the insurrection, Greene condemned the violence at the Capitol and falsely accused “Antifa/BLM terrorism” and Democratic politicians of stoking the insurrection.

“Insurrection.” Correct. Led by the leftist with the fur hat and the horns.

As significantly as I know, for the reason that it wasn’t just a “like” but fairly her own post–at minimum, this is what has been reported–Greene’s worst offense was when she attributed California’s wildfires to a house ray managed by the Rothschilds. Or a little something like that. It could be a joke, besides that it isn’t funny. So I suppose she much more or fewer intended it.

So, to set it mildly, Marjorie Greene is not our form of Republican. Nonetheless, what to make of the Democrats’ campaign versus her? A couple observations:

1) The Democrats want Greene expelled (or, at a minimum, barred from serving on any committees) simply because of factors she explained before she took office–statements or “likes” that were indisputably guarded speech. I do not know no matter whether there is any precedent for such a sanction. I doubt it. It appears to be to me that such extreme steps must be reserved for actions taken when serving in the Household, not previously as a private citizen. The grounds for expelling Greene have been mainly known right before the election, and nonetheless the voters in Georgia’s 14th District elected her, overwhelmingly. I really do not assume it is up to the Democratic the vast majority in the Home to determine that the voters ended up mistaken.

2) The worst of Greene’s statements propose that she may well be anti-Semitic. If true, that is a awful detail. But if we are likely to expel anti-Semites from the Dwelling, Greene is hardly very first on the checklist. Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and no doubt others if we assiduously analyze their Facebook webpages, are way forward of her in line. Once again, the dilemma of when anti-Semitic statements have been produced is applicable. Greene has been spotless considering that using her seat in the House, whilst Omar and Tlaib have made use of their pulpit as associates to spew despise. So, if the Property is eager to expel Omar and Tlaib or bar them from committees, next we can consider up the issue of Marjorie Greene. Not right before.

3) The Democrats’ circumstance against Marjorie Greene mainly consists of the claim that she is a conspiracy theorist. Fantastic. If we are heading to expel reps who promoted conspiracy theories, let’s start with the Democrats who propounded the crazy conspiracy theory that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election. When all of individuals Democrats have been expelled or deprived of their committee assignments–that handles rather a lot all Democrats, including the Dwelling leadership–we can get up the question of whether Marjorie Greene promoted unfounded conspiracy theories.

4) The Democrats recommend that Marjorie Greene has by some means been a proponent of violence. That declare is doubtful at ideal, but it is accurate of very a several Congressional Democrats. How a lot of have accused President Trump of treason, the penalty for which is death? How many have condoned, and even encouraged, violent Black Lives Issue/Antifa riots that have killed somewhere in between 25 and 30 men and women?

I would be curious to know, also, how lots of Congressional Democrats have “liked” others’ violent social media posts–the standard that is remaining used to Greene. How quite a few “liked” one or additional of the tens of 1000’s of tweets by Democrats that incorporated the hashtag #Rape Melania? That hashtag trended with additional than 32,000 tweets. How numerous Democratic users of Congress appreciated or retweeted one or additional of people 32,000? Any opportunity Politico will glimpse into that?

5) The issue of committee assignments is a excellent one particular. Nothing in Greene’s past suggests that she is unfit to serve on the Education and learning and Labor or Spending plan Committee. On the other hand, we have the grotesque example of Eric Swalwell, who carried on an affair with a Chinese spy whilst serving on the House Intelligence Committee. And, not only that, he lied to the American men and women about magic formula files to which he had privileged accessibility. When Swalwell has been expelled from the Intelligence Committee, on which, astonishingly, he even now serves, I am inclined to get up other instances. Until finally then, forget about it.

The situation of Marjorie Greene is an exciting just one. On 1 hand, we clearly would like that Georgians experienced elected somebody else. On the other hand, the Democrats’ marketing campaign from her is cynical and hypocritical, and features an opportunity to expose the Democrats’ personal corruption of the House. Which I have tried out to do in this write-up.