The Rise of Anti-history
The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.
In June, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The visit was, by her own account, revelatory. Earlier in the spring, the Georgia member of the U.S. House compared Food City, a grocery chain that identified vaccinated employees on their name tags, to the Nazis, who forced Jews to wear Stars of David. A few days later, she compared Democrats to Nazis.
Now she was contrite. “When you make a mistake, you should own it. I have made a mistake, and it’s really bothered me. “The Holocaust—there’s nothing comparable to it.”
