Movie buffs and political historians recognize the title of the 1915 DW Griffith film The Birth of a Nation.
Originally titled the Clansman, the film, while an acknowledged triumph in filmmaking, wrongly stereotyped black people as ignorant, manipulative, and predators of white women. It also falsely glorified the racist Ku Klux Klan as a force for good and protectors of southern culture.
Today (April 16, 2021,) Majorie Taylor Greene and some of her Quisling House Republican-Election Denying-Trump Zone Soulmates have decided to form the equivalent of a Birth of a Nation caucus by launching an Anglo Saxon-Trumpist glorification group called America First.
Along with Taylor Greene, fellow Quisling, Ethically Challenged, Mentally Impaired, and Trump Zone Republicans like Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, and Barry Moore are fellow founding members of this group.
The legally embattled Gaetz (the one who has been linked the last few weeks to accusations of sex trafficking) tweeted:
“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.”
According to reporting from the Washington Post, the program for this America First Caucus will include:
- Advancing Donald Trump’s “legacy” (and probably cult of personality.)
- Promoting election fraud conspiracy theories.
- All immigration should be paused.
- Non-Anglo Saxon Immigrants should be assimilated to Anglo Saxon Ways through the education system.
- Infrastructure programs “that reflect “the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture, whereby public infrastructure must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful, befitting a world power and source of freedom.”
- Criticizing foreign aid.
- The reaction to the threats of the Coronavirus is overblown.
While Democrats have predictably condemned this possible new caucus, Republican House leadership, perhaps seeing its goals of gaining control of that chamber evaporating with each passing second, were quick to do so as well.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in reporting from Politico, tweeted:
“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.”
Liz Cheney, the House Republican Conference Chair also responded, via social media:
“Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil. History teaches we all have an obligation to confront & reject such malicious hate.”
According to the Washington Post and social media, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger tweeted:
I believe anyone that joins this caucus should have their committees stripped, and the Republican conference should expel them from conference participation. While we can’t prevent someone from calling themselves Republican, we can loudly say they don’t belong to us. https://t.co/ULEF5MRyWf
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) April 16, 2021
While this political schism is a potential 2022 and 2024 election gift to Democrats (most of whom are probably launching fundraisers based on the formation of this grotesque caucus,) House leadership (of both parties preferably) should quickly take Kinzinger’s advice and strip these UnAmerican white nationalist traitors of any committee seats or party roles.
If McCarthy and the other leading Republicans falter in carrying out their oaths, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats should do the job for them.
To be honest, it should have been done to all these people after January 6, 2021, when they showed their loyalty to the domestic terrorists who stormed the Nation’s Capitol and the individual then residing in the White House who encouraged them.
The American Democratic Republic does not need the cancer personified by these people who founded this Birth of a Nation Caucus to fester any longer in the hallowed halls of Congress.
Kick them out now.
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The original America First Committee in 1940 was nativist and isolationist, and was led by anti-semitic and pro-Nazi leaders, like Charles Lindbergh. The AFC was seen as a Nazi front group, snd was infiltrated by Nazi agents.
This Caucus is also white nationalist and pro-fascism.
CNN now reports, “Marjorie Taylor Greene scraps planned launch of controversial ‘America First’ caucus amid blowback from GOP”, https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/17/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-america-first-caucus/index.html
Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her “America First” caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party, despite confirming through a spokesperson on Friday that the caucus would launch.
Nick Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, told CNN in an email on Saturday afternoon the Georgia Republican is not “launching anything.”
“The Congresswoman wants to make clear that she is not launching anything. This was an early planning proposal and nothing was agreed to or approved,” he said in an email to CNN, referring to a flier promoting the caucus, obtained by Punchbowl News, that used inflammatory rhetoric.
He added that “she didn’t approve that language and has no plans to launch anything.”
This is a reversal from Friday, when her office said she would launch the caucus “very soon.”
“Be on the look out for the release of the America First Caucus platform when it’s announced to the public very soon,” Dyer said in a statement to CNN Friday.