Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday said it is “insanity” for his GOP colleagues to invoke Nazi parallels to combat the proposed door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination awareness efforts of the Biden administration.
“It’s insanity. It’s absolute insanity,” the congressman said of the comparisons during a Sunday segment of CNN’s State of the Union.
“This is outrage politics that is being played by my party, and it’s going to get Americans killed,” he added. “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 out this outrageous stuff on Twitter. ‘Yeah, I’m getting all these retweets, and everybody knows me. I’m famous.'”
Last week, President Joe Biden said efforts to vaccinate as many people in the United States as possible should involve officials going “door to door” to spread news of the inoculation.
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“We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring. … Now, we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door, literally knocking on doors, to get help for the remaining people protected from the virus,” he said on Tuesday.
In response, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared the Biden door knockers to Nazi-era “brown shirts.”
“Biden pushing a vaccine that is NOT FDA approved shows covid is a political tool used to control people,” the congresswoman wrote in a Tuesday tweet. “People have a choice, they don’t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations. You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment.”
Similarly, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert likened the officials to “Needle Nazis.”
“Biden has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County,” she tweeted on Thursday. “The people of my district are more than smart enough to make their own decisions about the experimental vaccine and don’t need coercion by federal agents. Did I wake up in Communist China?”
Kinzinger conceded that Biden’s comments could have been said in a “different” way, though he called out Greene by name and told voters not to “listen” to her. He also appeared to refer to both Greene and Boebert as “garbage politicians.”
“Now, what President Biden said — and maybe he could have said it slightly different — is, we’re willing to come to your house to give you the vaccine,” he said. “At no point was anybody saying they’re going to break down your door and jam a vaccine in your arm, despite your protest.”
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“Listen, if you are a Republican voter, do not listen to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene,” he added. “The vaccine is safe. COVID is real. Get vaccinated, because if you’re going to listen to the outrage … Now, she’s basically saying the vaccine’s going to kill you.”
Neither Boebert’s nor Greene’s offices immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
