While Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert continue babbling bubble-headed comparisons between COVID vaccination drives and Nazi Germany, they're driving politicians to distance themselves from the two. Last week it was the Republican Women's PAC; on Sunday, it was Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)
Kinziger has already spoken up several times about the pair, but today he had a bully pulpit at CNN's State of the Union. He called their accusations "absolute insanity."
“This is outrage politics that is being played by my party,” Kinzinger said. “Our party has been hijacked, my party has been hijacked. It is on its way to the ground, and for some people, it’s a fun ride, right? We can put this outrageous stuff on Twitter . . . but this plane is gonna crash into the ground.”
But Greene and Boebert seem irrepressible. Only recently, Greene was calling COVID-19 “a political tool used to control people,” claimed that the vaccines were not FDA-approved (they were), and said that people "don’t need your (Biden's) medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations,” she said on Twitter, only days after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
Boebert tweeted on Thursday that Biden "has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County" in her state of Colorado. In rewsponse, the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted a dignified but fairly straightforward response: “Instrumentalization of the tragedy of all people who ... were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the hateful totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany to argue against vaccination that saves human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.”
At this point, it seems that the rest of the GOP is perfectly okay with Kinsinger carrying the weight of talking back to this pair of neoconservate cuckoos. There've been a comments from others, notably the Senate and House Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy -- but Kinzinger is the one hammering at the craziness again and again.
"The vaccine is safe. Covid is real. Get vaccinated," he said in the CNN interview yesterday. "I call on every leader in the Republican party to stand up, say 'get vaccinated,' and to call out these garbage politicians . . . playing on your vaccine fears for their own selfish gain."
Unfortunately, with these two, common sense talk is falling on deaf ears.
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