If Donald Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom are clearly created in his image.
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay and in shackles. But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman-a rich one at that-she is instead a member of the House of Representatives in the most powerful country in the world. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
Greene, who has backed insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, must not just be kicked off of committees but kicked out of the House, where she rubs shoulders with the very lawmakers against whom she has incited violence. 
MTG was dangerous & vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, Republicans shrugged & carried on being the craven shits they are, happy to throw weight behind anyone who brings votes politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
Her especially graphic hate against Muslims is a reminder that in the U.S. saying Islamophobic shit is not censured but celebrated, and Islamophobia undergirds U.S. political discourse, especially that of Republicans.
It is imperative to recognize that Greene, like Trump, is not aberration. She is from Georgia, where 75 percent of white women voters chose a white man against Stacey Abrams in her campaign for governor in 2018.
Southern women are the nexus of the GOP’s Southern Strategy’s reliance on race, gender, and religion to keep white people in that part of the U.S. resolutely Republican and increasingly right wing. salon.com/2019/07/01/the…
White supremacist & increasingly evangelical patriarchy has an army of willing white women serving as its footsoldiers. Trump might have lost the election but he won white women voters with a bigger margin than in 2016 - 52% in 2016 to 55% in 2020. yahoo.com/lifestyle/shou…
Ignoring MTG will not make what she represents go away. She is part of a red wave that made history in the November elections: a record-breaking 17 new female GOP lawmakers who were elected to Congress feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
Many GOP women who flipped blue seats to red are not moderates nor are they interested in “unity” unless it is a unity w/fascism that Trump has unleashed w/their support - he is fruition:the GOP has long been a party of white supremacy,misogyny, Islamophobia, & other oppressions
And GOP women understand the very specific role they play to maintain it. They are also learning that to succeed against the boys, they must outdo the boys in hate-- enter Greene and Boebert. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
The danger, always, is that someone as vile as Greene is normalized by the U.S. media. White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence.
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When media like Axios equivocate between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ilhan Omar and other members of the Squad, against whom Greene has incited violence, it is spineless “both sides“ fuckery and paves the way for the GOP to do the same.
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And if Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be have been led away in handcuffs on her way to a waterboarding. Instead, she is a white supremacist terrorist who sits at the heart of U.S. power. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
And if Donald Trump the man has left, Donald Trump the Movement is “only just beginning.” He told us so in his farewell address and Marjorie Taylor Greene was birthed by that movement; she is his legacy feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
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