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Marjorie Taylor Greene

  • SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
    2/24/2023

    Marjorie Taylor Greene's "National Divorce" Won't be Amicable

    by Thomas Lecaque and Joshua Call

    The greatest danger of the Congresswoman's call for red and blue states to disaffiliate is that it will encourage followers to use political and extralegal means to move their communities and states closer to the fantasy of unity and homogeneity she referenced. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    6/1/2021

    Anti-Vaxxers are Claiming Centuries of Jewish Suffering to Look like Martyrs

    by Sarah E. Bond

    "Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers would have us believe that the evil of being encouraged to get a vaccine is the same as the project of ethnic labeling and cleansing undertaken by the Third Reich. It appears at first a farcical analogy, but it’s not without its dangers."

  • SOURCE: The Guardian
    2/15/2021

    Jews Fear what Follows after Republicans Applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene

    by Deborah Lipstadt

    "Having spent decades studying, teaching, researching and fighting antisemitism, Greene’s claims were familiar territory. All of them – space lasers, 9/11, school shootings, Trump’s election loss and so much else – shared a common theme: conspiracy."

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    2/5/2021

    Marjorie Taylor Greene Knows Exactly What She's Doing

    by Jamelle Bouie

    Historians Lisa McGirr, Sara Diamond, and Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld argue that the Republican Party has always had to keep a porous border between itself and the hard right groups who led its activist base since the Goldwater years. The borders today seem to be dissolving.

  • 2/4/2021

    How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marjorie?

    The House of Representatives has voted, mostly on party lines, to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments in response to her statements endorsing the Capitol riots and conspiracy theories that school shootings were hoaxes and California wildfires were started by the Rothschild banking family using space lasers.

  • SOURCE: Slate
    2/3/2021

    The GOP’s Bolshevik Moment

    by Fred Kaplan

    Alexander Kerensky's tenure as Russia's only prime minister between the overthrow of the Czar and the Bolshevik takeover was cut short in part because he viewed Lenin as an ally against his monarchist enemies. Republican Party leaders risk the same fate if they accept the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene as allies against Joe Biden.