Kevin McCarthy has chosen bigotry over truth. And the GOP is following his lead.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-has-chosen-bigotry-over-truth-gop-following-his-n1272975

On the final day of June, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave us an extraordinary display of what he and the Republican Party have become.

On the same day that McCarthy voted against a committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, he demanded an investigation into Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s paranoid and baseless charge that the National Security Agency was reading his emails.

And even as he continued to stand by a member of his caucus who was openly associating with neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers, the GOP leader threatened to strip any Republicans of committee assignments if they accepted an appointment to the select committee.

His priorities could not have been clearer.

In McCarthy’s GOP, the attack on democracy is memory-holed, while a Fox News conspiracy theory is hyped. Bigots are tolerated, while truth-tellers are purged and bullied.

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[maxsolomon]

1. McCarthy is choosing Politics over Governance.

which shouldn't surprise anyone.

Why would the GQP help Dems show the world the depth of their culpability in their Insurrection? Nothing good can come of it for them.

Better to distract.

[Hortensis]

2. They ALL abandoned ALL principles long ago. Worse, they've ALL united --

Republicans in most state governments are united with Republicans/conservatives in all three branches of the federal government in common cause to take over our nation. The conservative majority on SCOTUS is allied with/serves the political goals of McCarthy and McConnell and other major conservative power blocs, including their kleptocrat donors.

All these authorities are supposed to act independently and serve the constitution. They're not. This is organized betrayal and the BIGGEST danger our nation has ever faced.

[uponit7771]

3. ... but anonymously created slogans turn elections 🙄🙄🙄

[tanyev]

4. Seems like he's following the lead of MTGreene and D'oh!bert and their ilk.