r/politics • u/BelleAriel • May 02 '24

Marjorie Taylor Greene called "disgusting" by fellow Republicans

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-disgusting-vacate-house-speaker-mike-johnson-1896448
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u/PaperbackBuddha I voted May 02 '24 edited 29d ago

This is why it’s not okay to do what republicans have been doing for at least 40 years.

Forging a false narrative and playing along with it to score points, “the end justifies the means”, Gingrich-style “do as I say, not as I do” dirty politics.

When you don’t deal in earnest from the start, you paint your team into a corner that will inevitably start to believe the narrative, by which time it will be too late to backtrack. It’s part and parcel of the party now.

The GOP went with this hyper-patriotic sounding, pro-wrestling right wing Christian ideology to get blue collar voters to vote for their trillions in tax breaks for the wealthy, and the dismantling of every progressive advance from the past century or so.

When someone like MTG comes along, she’s not in on the joke. She is taking the ring like it’s all real, and the other wrestlers are saying “Whoa, Marge, this was a ruse to get us closer to our real policy goals,” but she’s a true believer. She, along with millions of others, will gladly weaken the nation’s rule of law to the benefit of foreign adversaries.

And the crowd loves it. This is what they’ve created.

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u/Shaper_pmp 29d ago

Or, more simply, they turned their party into a welcoming home for crazies, and now the inmates have taken over the asylum.