After winning a runoff for the Republican nomination in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District Tuesday night, Marjorie Taylor Greene delivered a message for her soon-to-be colleague in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“She’s a hypocrite,” Greene
said. “She’s anti-American. And we’re going to kick that bitch out of Congress!”
Unsporting though it may have been, this manages to be one of the less controversial of many infamous remarks from Greene, an effective lock to win November’s general election in her deep-red, northwest Georgia district. Greene, a construction executive, is someone who over the years has enjoyed uploading videos to Facebook about whatever’s on her mind. She
described the 2018 midterms as “an Islamic invasion of our government,” said Black people are “held slaves to the Democratic Party,” and accused George Soros, the Democratic megadonor, who is Jewish, of being a Nazi. More of these videos are being unearthed by the day. Among the latest hits: Greene has had some questions
about “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon.”
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This means the House Republican conference in the 117th Congress, which is expected to be the minority once again, is going to be a sight. It’s not just that the replacements are getting more, well, colorful. Where House Republicans are in the political life cycle, combined with specific, Gingrich-era rules that House Republicans impose on their conference, means the party is facing a real depletion of those within the conference who have any idea what they’re doing.
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What House Republicans are looking at next year is a minority in which the people who know how to govern will be gone, and their replacements will include people who either subscribe to or
don’t rule out! the dumbest conspiracy theory in existence, or have otherwise been marinated in a very-online conspiracy media bubble that make the days of Fox News as the central misinformation organ look quaint.
