The Scariest Thing About Marjorie Taylor Greene? She's Not Alone.

[babylonsister]

The Scariest Thing About Marjorie Taylor Greene? She’s Not Alone.
For the United States Congress, she’s still a little on the extreme side. But out there in red America, there are millions of Marjorie Taylor Greenes. Yes, millions.
Molly Jong-Fast, Editor-At-Large
Published Jan. 31, 2021 4:57AM ET

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Taylor Greene is an odd mélange of all the worst elements of Trump’s Republican Party. She’s got all the crazy of a Louie Gohmert mixed with the virulent racism of a Steve King with a dash of the weird paranoia of a Devin Nunes. Her social media is a virtual oppo research file filled with some of the craziest, most disturbing Boomer brain worm content imaginable, from QAnon conspiracy theories to the preposterous idea that 9/11 was an inside job. And even before she was sworn in, MTG was at the White House having a “planning session” with the Trump team about how she was going to stop Joe Biden from “stealing the election.”

But probably the scariest thing about Taylor Greene isn’t her insane beliefs. It’s that she’s not alone. For starters, she is the representative of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, a place where “more than six thousand recently signed a petition to save a local statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.”

Pulling the camera back, Taylor Greene represents a real part of the Boomer mom conspiracy-minded Trump base. She may be a little on the extreme side for Congress. But we have every reason to believe that out there in red America, there are millions of people who think everything she thinks and believe every word she says. Yes, I said millions.

To say Taylor Greene is red-pilled doesn’t begin to cover the Alex Jones-style bugs gnawing on her cerebral cortex. She’s flirted with 9/11 trutherism, and the idea that school shootings are false flags, writing on Facebook that “I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.” Then there’s the March 2019 video of her harassing school shooting survivor and teenager David Hogg. The visual of a middle-aged woman screaming at a teenager on the street is pretty jarring. CNN noted that in a deleted Facebook post MTG called Hogg #littlehitler.

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[yardwork]

1. Greene was born in 1974. She is NOT a Baby Boomer.

Most of the rest of the column appears to be accurate, but the columnist getting that simple, easily verifiable fact wrong calls the rest of it into question.

It's inaccurate to call Greene or most of the rest of the QAnon believers "Boomers." They're considerably younger than Boomers.

[mobeau69]

2. Thanks. That jumped out at me also.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Right. I'm a boomer (1946). My kids (1967 - 1976) are not.

That's probably a small point when it comes to this horrible person, but boomers have been blamed for enough bad things.

[yardwork]

5. Its important to recognize how many young people have been drawn into QAnon.

It's not going to go away quickly.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. I'm not sure what we can do about that. It seems sensationalism is more appealing than truth.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. Not to generalize

but from what I’ve observed on Q forums, it’s not young people or old people that are Q cultists for the most part. If I had to bet on an average age range, I’d say mostly people 38-52 years old. That’s my guess.

[ariadne0614]

4. This resident of GA's 14th CD seems very much alone.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[JI7]

6. I can't get enough of this

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Lauren Witzke, who ran for Senate in Delaware, is even worse than MTG...

...believe it or not, and she managed to get nearly 40% of the general election vote in 2020.

She is, without exaggeration, an open and proud white nationalist and makes no apologies whatsoever for her repulsive statements.

[dalton99a]

10. +1. Witzke is a female David Duke.

And Republicans nominated her.

[rownesheck]

11. My mom, brother,

step mom, and probably my dad are these types of people. It's definitely part of why I haven't spoken to any of them in over 2 months, and why I rarely spoke to them previous to that. Rotted brains and rotted souls.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Same with Trump. I don't worry about him, I worry about the tens of millions supporting him.