Republicans' censuring of Ilhan Omar and elevation of Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes the party's hypocrisy and is an open door to antisemites on the right. jonathanchait writes
of these comments was to insist she did not realize the Rothschilds — who have featured centrally in antisemitic lore for more than a century — were Jewish. She has brushed off the rest of her deranged racist fever dreams by saying she wrote them before running for Congress.
However, after arriving in Congress, Greene continued her streak of extreme racism. Last year, she appeared at a white nationalist conference, which featured Nick Fuentes, a Nazi who has built links to Republican politics. She defended the decision as a rebuke to “identity politics,”her appearance as outreach. “It doesn’t matter if I’m speaking to Democrat union members or 1,200 young conservatives who feel cast aside and marginalized by society,” Greene said in a statement.
By any standard whatsoever, Greene’s comments are more inflammatory, more frequent, and less contrite. One could imagine a standard of strict enforcement of norms against antisemitism that would justify punishing both Omar and Greene. Alternatively, one could defend a standard of forgiveness and latitude that would avoid punishing either. But to punish Omar and forgive MTG is the height of absurdity.
Indeed, Republicans almost seemed to want to advertise their own hypocrisy by giving the job of leading the charge against Omar to Representative Max Miller, a former adviser to Donald Trump. Trump spent his presidency spewing antisemitic tropes:
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