Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) proved yet again this week that she is profoundly ignorant. In response to a tweet from Robert Reich calling for her removal from Congress, Greene insisted that Reich has “never done the real hard work that builds the economy”… but Reich is a former United States Secretary of Labor, making her assertion laughably off-point. Reich served in that role from 1993 to 1997 as part of the administration of then-President Bill Clinton.
Greene began her remarks about Reich with a complaint that he’d misspelled her last name. She ranted as follows:
‘It’s Greene with an “e” on the end. Don’t know you, but when I saw Berkley in your bio, I got it. Just put the hammer and sickle with it. Being a communists professor, you’ve never done the real hard work that builds the economy, you just teach ideas that will destroy it… It’s funded heavily by China. Again back to communism. These people are everything wrong in America and they are taking over like kudzu. Let’s throw them out.’
*Berkeley
Again who really cares. 🤷♀️
It’s funded heavily by China.
Again back to communism.These people are everything wrong in America and they are taking over like kudzu.
Let’s throw them out.https://t.co/vBZqMf7JSM
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 23, 2021
Again — it’s amazing that Greene would so fervently claim that a former U.S. Labor Secretary has “never done the real hard work that builds the economy.” Reich mentions his past work as head of the U.S. Labor Department in his Twitter bio, and there’s no apparent indication that he’s changed it since Greene’s tweet went up. The reference to Reich’s past role as Labor Secretary sits right after the reference to his current role at Berkeley. Did Greene just… stop reading? Did she ignore that part? Why should anyone take Greene seriously if she can’t even be bothered to do basic research regarding someone about whom she’s issuing a public statement?
These remarks aren’t the only nonsense that Greene has put out recently. Lately, she sounds even more like she’s living in some kind of delusional alternate reality fueled by far-right extremism and just plain nonsense. She has compared pushes for mask-wearing to the Holocaust, insisting that demands for compliance with basic public health precautions are “exactly the type of abuse” that unfolded under the Nazis. It doesn’t take rocket science to see that there is no credibility to Greene’s remarks whatsoever. What level of privilege-induced disconnection from reality is required to assert that wearing a mask when in public is somehow comparable to the mass murder perpetrated by the Nazis?
MTG says Speaker Pelosi wanting Members of Congress to get vaccinated and if not to wear masks is “exactly the type of abuse” as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust and David Brody nods along. No follow up. pic.twitter.com/inXfD8UBiG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 22, 2021
