Analysis: The GOP’s increasing blind eye to anti-Muslim bigotry | CNN Politics

Over the past year, a trio of House Republicans have said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” labeled Muslim congresswomen “terrorists,” expressed a preference for dogs over Muslims, told now-New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the Third World” because he ate rice with his hands, and said that Muslims “breed their way through our society.” President Donald Trump, meanwhile, added to his increasingly xenophobic recent commentary two weeks ago by advocating for sending two Muslim congresswomen “back from where they came.” In the past, Republicans have picked their spots when rebuking these kinds of comments. But increasingly, it appears GOP leaders have largely given up policing them — at least publicly. And they’ve largely given up even as some members of their party appear increasingly concerned about another form of bigotry taking hold on the political right: antisemitism. The trio here — Reps. Randy Fine of Florida, Brandon Gill of Texas and Andy Ogles of Tennessee — have spoken in unvarnished and bigoted terms about Muslims. The most recent entry is Ogles’ Monday post on X that “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” In