Rep. Brian Mast wears an IDF uniform to House Republican meeting

Some Republicans have responded to the Palestinian flag outside Palestinian American Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s office by proposing a measure to ban all non-U.S. flags from Congress. Rep. Brian Mast took a different approach: For the latest meeting at which House Republicans are trying to find a speaker, he showed up in an Israel Defense Forces uniform, saying, “Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”

Hanging the flag of the people from whom you’re descended is bad. Wearing the military uniform of another country to which you have no hereditary or ethnic ties is good. But this isn’t just a Republican trying to own the libs. Mast’s IDF uniform is a reminder of how many evangelical Christians view Israel.