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It's Marjorie Taylor Greene's Party Now
She embarrasses some Republicans, but shes no outlier.By Michelle Goldberg
Steve King, the Republican former congressman from Iowa, must feel robbed. Two years ago, he was stripped of all his committee assignments after asking, in an interview with The New York Times, White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization how did that language become offensive? The Republican Party threw its weight behind Kings primary challenger, and he was whisked off the national stage, no longer to embarrass colleagues who prefer that racist demagogy be performed with enough finesse to allow for plausible deniability.
Since then, standards have changed. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, is every bit as bigoted as King, and 10 times as unhinged. By now, youve surely heard her theory that California wildfires might have been caused by a space laser controlled by Jewish bankers. That wasnt Greenes first foray into anti-Semitism; in 2018 she shared a notorious white nationalist video in which a Holocaust denier claimed that Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation.
Recently, Greene met with a far-right British commentator, Katie Hopkins, who has described migrants as cockroaches and said she doesnt care if they die. Greene told her, I would love to trade you for some of our white people here that have no appreciation for our country. She described the results of the 2018 midterms as an Islamic invasion of our government. Greene endorsed calls for the execution of prominent Democrats and agreed with Facebook posts claiming that the Parkland and Sandy Hook school shootings were hoaxes. She harassed one of the Parkland massacres young survivors.
As it happens, this week House Republicans are seeking to punish a prominent woman in their ranks but its not Greene. A big chunk of the House Republican caucus is reportedly trying to oust Liz Cheney of Wyoming from leadership because she voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop.html
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It's Marjorie Taylor Greene's Party Now (Original Post)
Zorro
Feb 2021
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TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)1. The same thing could very well happen to her.
I think they might be setting the stage to primary her as they did with King. If so, it's because they think it's a better alternative than trying to force her out now.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)2. The QGOP.....
Or GQP?
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House leader, is meeting with Greene, but its far from clear that hell act against her, because she represents much of their partys base. When The New Yorkers Charles Bethea met a group of Greenes local supporters last year, they were generally familiar with QAnon, and several agreed that Democrats are controlled by Satan. Theres a reason Kelly Loeffler, who needed to get out the pro-Trump vote, touted Greenes endorsement when she was trying to hold on to her Georgia Senate seat.
Just look at the partys state affiliates. On Jan. 4, the Arizona G.O.P. retweeted a Stop the Steal activist whod pronounced himself willing to give my life to overturn the election. Said the partys official account: He is. Are you? An Arizona lawmaker has since introduced a bill that would let the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, override the presidential vote of the states increasingly Democratic citizenry.
The Oregon Republican Party approved a resolution suggesting that the Capitol siege was a false flag attack. The Texas Republican Party has adopted the QAnon slogan We are the storm as its motto, though it insists theres no connection. The chairman of Wyomings Republican Party, who attended Trumps rally on Jan. 6, said he might be open to secession.
Greene is not the outlier in this party. Kinzinger is.
American conservatism particularly its evangelical strain has fostered derangement in its ranks for decades, insisting that no source of information outside its own self-reinforcing ideological bubble is trustworthy.
If youre steeped in creationism and believe that elites are lying to you about the origins of life on earth, its not a stretch to believe theyre lying to you about a life-threatening virus. If what you know of history is the revisionist version of the Christian right, in which God deeded America to the faithful, then pluralism will feel like the theft of your birthright. If you believe that the last Democratic president was illegitimate, as Trump and other birthers claimed, then its not hard to believe that dark forces would foist another unconstitutional leader on the country.
Just look at the partys state affiliates. On Jan. 4, the Arizona G.O.P. retweeted a Stop the Steal activist whod pronounced himself willing to give my life to overturn the election. Said the partys official account: He is. Are you? An Arizona lawmaker has since introduced a bill that would let the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, override the presidential vote of the states increasingly Democratic citizenry.
The Oregon Republican Party approved a resolution suggesting that the Capitol siege was a false flag attack. The Texas Republican Party has adopted the QAnon slogan We are the storm as its motto, though it insists theres no connection. The chairman of Wyomings Republican Party, who attended Trumps rally on Jan. 6, said he might be open to secession.
Greene is not the outlier in this party. Kinzinger is.
American conservatism particularly its evangelical strain has fostered derangement in its ranks for decades, insisting that no source of information outside its own self-reinforcing ideological bubble is trustworthy.
If youre steeped in creationism and believe that elites are lying to you about the origins of life on earth, its not a stretch to believe theyre lying to you about a life-threatening virus. If what you know of history is the revisionist version of the Christian right, in which God deeded America to the faithful, then pluralism will feel like the theft of your birthright. If you believe that the last Democratic president was illegitimate, as Trump and other birthers claimed, then its not hard to believe that dark forces would foist another unconstitutional leader on the country.