Over the past ten years or so, political analysts have been sure that the Democratic Party was ready to self destruct. The weighty pull of the progressive left, often fueled by the youngest and most enthusiastic within the party, has been attempting to drag the entire group to the left. And you can tell by the kicking and screaming that they did during the election of Joe Biden.
But now, a new trouble is looming over the horizon, as the GOP looks to cleave itself right down the middle, with the old guard on one side, and the vastly stranger, conspiratorial crowd occupying the opposite space.
The latest battle between these two conservative forces has Mitch McConnell majorly dissing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday blasted Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in a statement first shared with The Hill. “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
McConnell didn’t mention Greene by name in his three-sentence statement, but his rare, scathing remarks about a freshman GOP lawmaker from the other chamber suggests he recognizes the potential damage her violent rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories could inflict on congressional Republicans as they try to take back both the House and Senate in next year’s midterms.
Congressional Democrats have targeted Greene as well, telling their Republican counterparts that, should they be refuse to remove Greene from her committee roles, they will move forward with a plan to expel her from the legislature.
