Nick Fuentes, the 23-year-old virgin famous for denying the Holocaust and admiring the way the Taliban treats women, is not allowed at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Contrary to the Borat fever dream that the American Conservative Union tolerates Ku Klux Klan members and Nazis attending the annual conservative conference, CPAC has gone to great lengths in recent years to ban alt-right agitators such as Fuentes, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, and loony Laura Loomer. For the third year in a row, Fuentes has held a rival “America First” Political Action Conference in a concurrent competition with CPAC, but for the first time, a sitting member of Congress has headlined both of them.

CPAC may be able to ban Fuentes, but what to do about Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conspiracy theorist-cum-congresswoman whose own Republican colleagues stripped her of her committee assignments for (among many, many other things) denying the veracity of 9/11 and the Parkland, Florida, shooting and blaming “Zionists” for enacting de facto white genocide? The organization may be able to ban Fuentes and his fellow basement dwellers, but on Friday night, Greene elected to embrace Fuentes onstage just moments after he applauded Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading the sovereign nation of Ukraine and a mere night before she was scheduled to speak at CPAC.