Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) recently spoke at this year’s third annual America First Political Action Conference, which was set for Orlando, Florida, around the same time and in the same city as the latest installment of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The America First event promotes white supremacy; after Greene delivered her remarks, a speaker claimed that “Western white culture is the majority culture, to which even non-whites assimilate into today — and they’re better off for it,” so… yeah. They’re not subtle. Greene said on Twitter in her defense that she’s “not going to play the guilt by association game,” and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) pointedly replied as follows:
‘I am going to play it. You spoke to a white supremacy group. You are defending your presence there. If this was not bizarro world, you would be the one censured and excommunicated from the GOP. You will lose ultimately, just like Putin. And people will curse your name.’
I am going to play it. You spoke to a white supremacy group. You are defending your presence there. If this was not bizarro world, you would be the one censured and excommunicated from the GOP. You will lose ultimately, just like Putin. And people will curse your name. https://t.co/Zkeyw1kmtP
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 26, 2022
It’s on-point, of course, to observe that Greene isn’t disavowing her presence at the event — instead, she’s defending it! Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) also called out Greene over the gathering; in Cheney’s remarks about the event, she highlighted how explicitly pro-Putin sentiments were put on display, even amid the Putin regime’s savage violence against Ukraine and its people. Event organizer Nick Fuentes, who is behind the event where Greene spoke, asked attendees for applause “for Russia,” after which point individuals who were there began chanting Putin’s name. Cheney commented that as “Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, pro-Putin event, silence by Republican Party leaders is deafening and enabling. All Americans should renounce this garbage and reject the Putin wing of the GOP now.” Kinzinger and Cheney were the only two House Republicans to vote in favor of removing Greene from her committee assignments in the chamber over issues including resurfaced past expressions of apparent support on her part for executing Democrats. Greene remains a close ally of ex-President Trump, indicating how these problems aren’t just going away.
I’m absolutely horrified, but at this point sadly not surprised, that two of my Republican colleagues participated in this pro-Putin, white supremacist, & profoundly antisemitic event. @GOPLeader & every House Republican should immediately condemn this. https://t.co/yMsZOGzkrr
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) February 26, 2022
