The new know-nothing party
By Aaron Blake
Feb. 4, 2021 at 11:43 a.m. EST
... The descent of .. the GOP base into the QAnon .. swamp has dogged.. Kevin McCarthy .. and his party for months. In August, he issued a firm denunciation, saying: “Let me be very clear: There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party.” Then Georgia Republicans sent a QAnon supporter to Congress, which prompted McCarthy to falsely claim Marjorie Taylor Greene had denounced it herself ...
Somehow .. McCarthy claims he’s still unfamiliar with this thing called QAnon. In fact, he’s not even sure how to pronounce it!
In explaining the House GOP’s decision not to strip Greene of her committee assignments late Monday, McCarthy claimed that she had given a speech to her colleagues “denouncing Q-on.” Then he added: “I don’t know if I say it right. I don’t even know what it is.”
... A poll last year showed 41 percent of Republicans thought QAnon was good for the country, despite it being regarded by the FBI as a domestic terrorism threat. And now it has .. contributed to the physical endangerment of both McCarthy and his colleagues ...
The reason the Know-Nothings were called that was because, when asked about their secret society by outsiders, they were instructed to respond, “I know nothing” ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/04/kevin-mccarthy-know-nothing-gop/
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