Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R–Ga.) proved on Tuesday that she learned absolutely nothing from her visit to the Holocaust museum last month.
Earlier on Tuesday, President Joe Biden announce that more resources will be directed to areas in the country where the rate of vaccination is slow. This after the country narrowly missed Biden’s self-imposed deadline of 70% of Americans getting at least one shot by July 4.
“We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring,” Biden said. “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.”
Reacting to Biden’s comments Greene compared this new approach to get more Americans vaccinated to Nazi Germany.
“Biden pushing a vaccine that is NOT FDA approved shows covid is a political tool used to control people,” Greene tweeted. “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.”
The ‘Brownshirts‘ were a violent paramilitary group that was instrumental in the rise of Hitler before World War II. They were infamous for their operation outside of the law and their violent intimidation of Germany’s leftists and Jewish population.
This is not the first time Greene has compared efforts to fight the pandemic to Nazi Germany. She has said Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s effort to get members of Congress to wear a mask on the House floor is similar to “a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.”
She received backlash for her comments and later apologized after a visit to the Holocaust Museum saying she “made a mistake” and there is “nothing comparable” to the genocide of 6 million Jewish people.
