Marjorie Taylor Greene

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2023
  

  Why Didn't 60 Minutes Push Back on MTG's "Pedophile" Smear?

  While Lesley Stahl responded that Democratic politicians aren't "pedophiles" or "groomers," historians Manisha Sinha and Brandy Schillace explain that the term has a longer and uglier history in campaigns to marginalize queer people and to use fears around sexual purity to justify oppression of outgroups. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/14/2023
  

  The Local Roots of Marjorie Taylor Greene's "National Divorce" Rhetoric

  by Michan Connor

  To understand her embrace of secessionist rhetoric, don't look to the Civil War; look to the political conflict that erupted in Atlanta's suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s. 

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• 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. 

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• 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."

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• 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."

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• 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.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/6/2021
  

  Marjorie Taylor Greene is Just the Latest Radical White Woman Poisoning Politics

  by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

  White women have been active participants in creating and advancing the politics of white supremacy and eliminationist conspiracy theorizing. Marjorie Taylor Greene's antics are nothing new. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/6/2021
  

  History Reveals the Danger of Republicans Indulging Marjorie Taylor Greene

  by Austin Nicholson

  Allowing Marjorie Taylor Greene to accrue seniority and committee leadership will bring her dangerous, conspiratorial and bigoted thinking into the mainstream of policymaking. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/28/2021
  

  Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Vile New Antics Highlight A 50-Year GOP Story

  Washington Post Political Columnist Greg Sargent says that Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiratorial bigotry reflects a historical problem with the Republican Party: the porous boundary between the mainstream and the extremist fringe. But that boundary is weaker than ever today.