In June of final yr, Fb movies emerged of Marjorie Taylor Greene making racist feedback. A spokesperson for Kevin McCarthy said, “these feedback are appalling, and Chief McCarthy has no tolerance for them.” Minority Whip Steve Scalise took it a step additional, throwing his assist behind Greene’s main opponent.

Greene was in a position to win that main, although, and he or she simply received election into the Home of Representatives. On Wednesday, extra viral movies of the Georgia congresswoman got here to gentle.

However as a substitute of punishing Greene, she was positioned on the Home Training and Labor Committee. This refusal to sentence Greene, says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, reveals that the QAnon wing is now controlling the Republican caucus.

The New York congresswoman told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes:

“It more and more appears, sadly, that within the Home Republican caucus, Kevin McCarthy solutions to those QAnon members of congress, not the opposite manner round. And that’s one thing that frankly must be stated — he stated he was going to tug consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene apart after, you already know, her feedback to Parkland activists and feedback saying that Muslim Individuals mustn’t totally and freely serve within the Home, that they have to be pressured to swear on a Bible, et cetera.”

Ocasio Cortez concluded, “It signifies that that silence is acceptance, they usually need it as a result of they know that it’s a core animating political power for them. And that is extraordinarily harmful — a particularly harmful threshold we now have crossed as a result of we are actually away from performing out of constancy to their president that they’d within the Oval Workplace, and now we’re speaking about constancy to white supremacist organizations as a political instrument.”

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