Multiple members of the GOP House leadership have rebuked freshman Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene for her repeated comparisons of the Holocaust to various aspects of coronavirus restrictions and regulations.
Both House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and second-in-command Steve Scalise said the Georgia Republican was wrong for repeatedly comparing mask mandates and vaccine identification proposals to what Nazis perpetrated during the Holocaust.
“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling,” the majority leader said in a statement. “Americans must stand together to defeat anti-Semitism and any attempt to diminish the history of the Holocaust. Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”
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Similarly, a spokesperson from the Louisiana lawmaker’s office told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that Scalise “does not agree with these comments and condemns these comparisons to the Holocaust.”
Both Republican leaders acknowledged antisemitic crimes are on the rise in the United States and around the world, asserting that antisemitism is similarly “on the rise in the Democratic Party.”
“Equating mask wearing and vaccines to the Holocaust belittles the most significant human atrocities ever committed,” Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “We must all work together to educate our fellow Americans on the unthinkable horrors of the Holocaust.”
In an interview last week, Greene claimed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to lift the mandate was the equivalent of how Nazis singled out Jews.
“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens,” she said. “So much so, they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Greene later stood by the comment, insisting to a reporter that she said “nothing wrong.” On Tuesday morning, she pushed the comparison further, tweeting, “Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.”
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Greene has been rebuked by party leaders before for incendiary comments that predate her time in Congress.
Her office did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
