Oh This Is Going To Be Fun

I’m proud to join @mtgreenee in the #AmericaFirst Caucus.

We will end wars, stop illegal immigration & promote trade that is fair to American workers.

This is just a hit piece from the America Last crowd in Big Media, Big Tech & Big Government.https://t.co/hjGiuSLwBW

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 16, 2021

Then so is this, I guess:

America is built on the idea that we are all created equal and success is earned through honest, hard work. It isn’t built on identity, race, or religion.

The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln & the party of more opportunity for all Americans—not nativist dog whistles.

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) April 16, 2021

How hard is McCarthy going to work to distance the party from these clowns?

They're not "inside" the Republican Conference. They ARE the Republican Conference. #NationalPopulism https://t.co/8BabOY0HUg

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) April 16, 2021

I don't need to quote the Forbes article, I can go straight to the source:

Take a look at how they describe their immigration and infrastructure policy. pic.twitter.com/6jwkhyAKvl

— Punchbowl News (@PunchbowlNews) April 16, 2021

Yeah, that’s not “Big Media, Big Tech,” or “Big Government.”  That’s the words of this new caucus.  "Importing" foreigners "en masse" seems pretty direct and racist and xenophobic to me.  Also pretty plain language.

Really not sure how their policies will “end wars,” but I guess that’s because wars are caused by non-Anglo-Saxons not minding their place.  Right?

Since the @HouseGOP is suddenly big defenders of Dr Seuss, they would do well to see one of his most famous cartoons, given their creation of the #americafirstcaucus today. pic.twitter.com/N53PeZqvZs

— US Rep Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) April 16, 2021

Heh.

In the meantime, I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time:

guys they’re not saying “Anglo-Saxon architecture” and also you’re not dunking on them by talking about thatched roofs.

it’s worth taking this seriously as it’s straight up 19th-century white racism that murders people.

— Matt Gabriele (@prof_gabriele) April 16, 2021

It’s not like we didn’t know the people involved are  racist white supremacists. If anything, now it’s just undeniable. I mean, Louie Gohmert is from the part of Texas where I grew up, and yes it is a representative government. He represents his constituents pretty damned well. Sadly. So we might as well point and laugh. Yelling really isn’t going to help. Although this is starting to make sense:

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the lone two members to vote against a bill that would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program, which matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases

The bill passed 415-2

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 16, 2021

Maybe they were worried about where the bone marrow would come from? You know, like “non-Anglo-Saxon” types?

(It has been pointed out that since 1066 the Normans have been in charge of England and the Isles, and since we are all related to Charlemagne, IIRC, the whole “Anglo-Saxon” thing really is pretty defunct.  Not that this isn’t a pedantic point lost on meatheads who even speak of “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”)