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**JANUARY 28, 2021**

Meyerson on TAP

Put the Republican Party on the Domestic Terrorist Watch List

Go to the Facebook account of newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(R-GA) and you'll find that she supports the lunatic theories that the
massacres of schoolchildren in Newtown and Parkland were events staged
to promote gun control. Today, House Republican leaders decided that
this concern for murdered children made her eminently qualified to serve
on the House Education Committee, to which they appointed her.

By now, it's clear that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA)
more than merits the judgment that Lyndon Johnson once passed on a
previous House Republican leader (later president), Gerald Ford. The
unsanitized version: "Gerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum
at the same time."

But if McCarthy and his ilk were merely stupid, they wouldn't pose the
danger to the nation that they surely do. Rather, they're stupid with
an anti-small-d-democratic bias and an apparent tolerance for violent
attacks on those who uphold the tenets of that small-d democracy. Go to
Greene's Twitter account and you'll find her liking tweets that
called for shooting Nancy Pelosi and executing FBI agents for their
"deep state" persecutions of Donald Trump. I suppose the equivalent of
that would have been Democratic members of Congress applauding the
shooting of House Republican Whip Steve Scalise-except, no Democratic
members of Congress did that; rather, they all expressed horror and
condemnation.

But the Republicans' indulgence of the Greenes in their ranks-and
there are many such-is of a piece with their overwhelming refusal to
hold Trump responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, much less
their own current colleagues, such as Arizona's Paul Gosar and Andy
Biggs, who also encouraged the January 6 rioters. Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution says that no government official can hold
office "who, having previously taken an oath ... to support the
Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof." That surely applies to Trump, but it increasingly appears that
it should apply to most Republican members of Congress as well.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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