# Repubs have formed an openly racist caucus **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 17, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207 "2021-04-17T12:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 203
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207/203 "2021-04-17T23:12:21Z")
> [@ALOHA\_HATER](#): > > Boy, it sure would be nice if we could all agree that it’s a bad thing when our elected officials publish a white supremacist manifesto. Somewhat surprisingly, it turns out that there has in fact been [enough pushback against it to cause its Republican promoters to abandon it, at least for now](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/republicans-blast-caucus-anglo-saxon-traditions.html). > [@](#): > > There won’t be an America First Caucus after all. At least for now. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused the media of making a big deal about something that wasn’t even a reality yet and aides said she wasn’t starting any new group. “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,” [Nick Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, said](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/17/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-america-first-caucus/index.html). Personally, I think we can probably find adequate diversity of reasonable opinions on issues like immigration and trade without looking to a bunch of nativist shitheels advocating for so-called “Anglo-Saxon political traditions”. (Having watched The Last Kingdom on Netflix and read the books, I don’t think Rep. Greene would like “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” as much as she thinks she would.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207)._