The GOP once knew what to do about problems like Marjorie Taylor Greene

[Zorro]

Opinion by Colbert I. King

Just how low can Republicans go?

Look at House GOP leaders wringing their hands over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the freshman lawmaker known for racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views. Contrast their anxious cries of “Oh, dear me, what do we do about Marjorie?” with the moment decades ago when the party had to contend with David Duke, the neo-Nazi former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.

At a Nov. 6, 1991, news conference 10 days before Louisianans went to the polls to vote for governor, GOP President George H.W. Bush urged them not to support Duke, the Republican on the ticket. Bush said:

“When someone asserts that the Holocaust never took place, then I don’t believe that person ever deserves one iota of public trust,” Bush said. “And when someone has so recently endorsed Nazism, it is inconceivable that such a person can legitimately aspire to leadership — in a leadership role in a free society. And when someone has a long record, an ugly record, of racism and of bigotry, that record simply cannot be erased by the glib rhetoric of a political campaign."

“So, I believe that David Duke is an insincere charlatan,” Bush continued. “I believe he is attempting to hoodwink the voters of Louisiana, and I believe that he should be rejected for what he is and what he stands for.”

On Election Day, Democrat Edwin Edwards won with 61 percent of the vote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gop-once-knew-what-do-about-problems-like-marjorie-taylor-greene/

[AlexSFCA]

1. david duke could probably win an election if he ran now

[RainCaster]

2. Jeffery Dahmer would win, if he endorses DFT

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Yep, their brainwashed cult is running their party now.

It reminds me of the scene from the two-part "Batshit Valley" from IFC's "Documentary Now!", in which the charlatan cult leader was (spoilers) eventually thrust in front of a speeding car by his cult members for them to prove his divinity to the world. Then he screamed in agony about them being idiots, finally revealing to them it was all a hoax, before dying.