Former Republican campaign adviser Steve Schmidt tore into Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) over her recent CNN interview.
Schmidt, who referred to Mace as a "putrid canker" and "Miss Look At Me Look At Me Look At Me," took particular issue with Mace telling CNN's Omar Jimenez that the United States should essentially ban Islamic immigration altogether.
"We have Christian foundations as a nation," said Mace in the clip shown by Schmidt. "Go back to that country is all I have to say. Go back to that country of origin. It doesn't need to be here."
As Jimenez tried to remind her that the Constitution guarantees freedom of worship, she talked over him, saying, "I think we should ban all immigrants from those countries."
Mace was demonstrating a "childlike insistence to get the last word, to say the last mean thing, the last provocation against decency," said Schmidt. "I don't want them in the country. Who, Muslims? It is a disgrace." Many Muslims have "fought and died" for America, after all, he pointed out — and America's leaders have long honored that sacrifice.
"George Washington was assiduous about this, about the free expression of religion, writing over and over to different congregations with the spirit of tolerance in his pen for the choices people make about how they choose to worship a higher power or not," Schmidt noted.
Ultimately, Schmidt concluded, "There is nothing uglier, nothing more bigoted, and nothing more un-American than what the loathsome Nancy Mace is doing right here. Degrading, demeaning, dehumanizing her fellow Americans for attention, for the sake of her own fetish for cruelty, and for political posture."
"It's no different than a Nazi chasing a Jew around the street in 1930s Bavaria," he added. "She is a David Duke with extensions."