In an invective that easily could have appeared at Salon or Huffington Post, National Review’s wannabe voice of conscience, Kevin Williamson, refers to the Republican Party as “the yellowest, most timorous, most gutless, grasping, worthless, indefensible, chickensh– political organ the world has ever seen.” It seems, however, that Williamson is condemning the Republicans for something they got right. They refused to expel from their ranks U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia’s 14th District, someone whom Williamson describes tout court as a “ghastly cretin” and “self-serving malicious dunce.”
Williamson laces into Greene for “morally” violating the 14th Amendment by being “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” on January 6. He believes this to be the case, even if Greene’s guilt would be hard to prove legally. Although “there are good grounds for treating January 6 as an insurrection under law,” he insists, “apparently Joe Biden’s Justice department does not see things that way.”
Greene, “a shabby grifter,” expressed sympathy for the imprisoned rioters and stands with those zealots who don’t believe that Joe Biden really won the 2020 presidential election. If Biden’s Attorney General decided to prosecute some of the more influential election skeptics as complicit in insurrection, other opportunities would avail themselves for dealing with treasonous Americans. Merrick Garland could investigate troublemakers in the media, e.g., Tucker Carlson, Miranda Devine, Julie Kelly, filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, and American Greatness contributors who share Greene’s skepticism about the 2020 election. Why let any of these insurrectionary skeptics off the hook?
Williamson has been a persistent NeverTrumper, and so it’s no surprise that he should continue his vendetta against those who supported his bête noire. Since the much-noted illegal entry into the Senate building on January 6 is not being elevated as what it supposedly was, namely a full-blown insurrection, the case for disqualifying Greene’s candidacy recently heard by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg (the even more radical sister of Nina Totenberg of NPR fame) has “no firm legal basis.” In this suit, Greene is accused of “engaging in insurrection” by “rhetorically challenging” the declared election results. Williamson must reject that charge since the Biden Administration has sadly not declared the events of January 6 to be a rebellion against our lawfully elected government. Because of the pussyfooting Garland, “a coward who is not up to his job,” Williamson must turn to “the people of Georgia’s Fourteenth District” to vote their congresswoman out of office. Both “patriotism and self-respect” require them to make that decision.
