A Republican Party Of Conspiracists And
Seditionists Will Fall, GOP Lawmaker Says
Rep. Peter Meijer was at a “loss for words” to see Liz
Cheney condemned for her impeachment vote but not Marjorie Taylor Greene for
her “insane” theories.
By Mary
Papenfuss
The
Republican Party cannot survive if leaders continue to reshape it into an
entity of “insane” QAnon conspiracy theorists and seditionists, freshman GOP
Rep. Peter Meijer warned in a dark interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on
Thursday.
The
Michigan congressman said he has been stunned by Republican silence about Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a QAnon conspiracist. She has advanced a
nonsensical theory that a space laser beam ignited California’s 2018 wildfires.
Greene has also said that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the horrific mass
shootings in Las Vegas, at a Parkland, Florida, high school and at Sandy Hook
Elementary School never actually happened but were staged by actors as part of
a “deep state” conspiracy.
Meijer said
it’s astounding the Republican Party appears to think it’s more important to
condemn Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for voting to impeach Trump for “incitement of
insurrection” in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol than to condemn Greene’s
“insane” theories. (Meijer was also one of the 10 Republicans in the House to
vote for impeachment.)
He also
lashed out at the GOP’s failure to consistently condemn the Capitol siege by
Donald Trump supporters.
“It’s just
staggering how many folks continue to ... try to paper over what happened” at
the Capitol, “try to move on, just say ... ‘Let’s forget about it.’ I’m just at
a loss for words,” Meijer said.
“We can’t
be a party of conspiracy theories,” Meijer warned. “We can’t be a party of
winking and nodding at some of the worst impulses we’ve seen in some of the
darkest corners of the internet.”
It’s
“important to stand up for truth ... and stand up and stand by our oath to the
Constitution and to say there are better ways for us to govern that don’t
devolve into threats of political violence, into these allusions to just insane
theories,” Meijer added. “That is not a strong party. That is a party that is
nearing its end.”
MSNBC’s
Nicolle Wallace, who had worked in the George W. Bush administration, also
accused the party of morphing into a twisted enemy that’s “insurrection
friendly.”
Republican
leaders used to claim they were all about “security.” Now “they’re all about
terrorism,” she said in a scathing takedown Thursday. “They’ve totally thrown
in their lot with the mob.”
“You might
think that putting the vice president in mortal danger would have been a line
too far for the rest of the GOP. Less than a month after the Capitol
insurrection, it seems Trump’s party is all too keen to welcome him back with
open arms,” Wallace charged.
She slammed
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for traveling to Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago resort to proudly pose for photos with the impeached former
president.
“The choice
to kiss the ring of a man who incited a seditious insurrection is one McCarthy
is not alone in making,” Wallace said. Have any Republican lawmakers “decided
to stick up for the country against seditionists? We wait and wait .... Unless
I’m missing something, they have thrown in their lot with Trump and the mob.”
She added:
“I haven’t seen any Republican give a speech ... with a strategy for defeating
violent domestic terrorism, and I was in the Bush White House after 9/11. They
couldn’t get away from microphones to talk about how they were going to be part
of the solution to protecting America from violent terrorism from abroad.”
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