Tolerating the cuckoo caucus

Max Boot

“There are no Marjorie Taylor Greenes in the Democratic Party,” said Max Boot. Republicans often downplay their party’s “alarming turn to the hard right” by accusing Democrats of allying themselves with antifa and far-leftists who call for defunding the police. In reality, left-wing extremists and antifa “disdain the Democratic Party as too moderate.” But right-wing extremists who claim the 2020 election was stolen, refuse to get vaccinated, and embrace crackpot conspiracy theories “are very much in the mainstream” of the GOP. Take Republican Rep. Greene, a menacing nut who last week chased after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she exited the House chamber, yelling, “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?” Like a mature adult, AOC simply ignored her. An earlier video shows Greene taunting AOC through the mail slot of her office door, berating her for “bringing God’s judgment on our country.” Greene has plenty of “cuckoo” allies in the GOP caucus, including

Reps. Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, and Lauren Boebert—elected officials whose sole mission appears to be trolling the libs. Far too many Republicans have “left civility and reason far behind.”