Right-wing Canadian activist Ezra Levant earned a “like” from Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter for a similar point: “How would this be reported if it were MAGA hat wearers stalking @AOC?”

The thing is, though, we don’t really have to try too hard to imagine such a scenario, because something similar happened. And the culprit was not some unknown protesters, but someone who now serves alongside Ocasio-Cortez in Congress: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.).

CNN in May reported that since-deleted video showed Greene taunting Ocasio-Cortez from outside her locked congressional office, calling her “crazy eyes” and telling her to “get rid of your diaper.” Once in Congress, reporters witnessed Greene this spring aggressively confronting Ocasio-Cortez over the Democrat’s supposed sympathies for terrorists. And a few years ago, Greene also accosted school-shooting survivor David Hogg as he was on Capitol Hill to meet with senators.

There were, in fact, no cable news calls for a national mourning period or a declaration of martial law. There was criticism, to be sure, but it was far from the “biggest news of the year” or even the day, for that matter.

Also, to the point raised in the National Reivew, there are indeed recent examples of right-wing protesters confronting GOP senators who, like Sinema, declined to toe their preferred party line.