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2021-02-18 Home Front: Politix

'Around here, Trump is king.' How Marjorie Taylor Greene got to Congress by running as the MAGA candidate

[USA Today] ROME, Ga. — To many of her constituents, Marjorie Taylor Greene got to Congress because she embodies a variety of conservative values: Anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy, pro-religion, pro-guns, pro-Donald Trump.

Her violent rhetoric and conspiracy theories?

Those aren't as popular with Republican conservatives in Georgia — but probably aren't a deal-breaker, either.

"I know her — I think she's representing us very well," said Debbie Scoggins, 54, a co-owner of Giggity's sports bar in downtown Rome, the imperially named city at the heart of Georgia's 14th Congressional District.

Sweeping the sidewalk in front of the restaurant, Scoggins said she met Greene as the latter asked for her vote. Pointing to the wide boulevard that runs past the old brick buildings of the rehabbed downtown, Scoggins said, "She's been all up and down Broad Street, asking people what they want from her ... She's passionate; she cares about people."

To others, Greene's passion boils into something far more than that: dangerous, conspiracy-driven extremism, the kind of rhetoric that leads to things like the the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by fervent Trump supporters.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-18 10:07|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Well, somebody have to protect American citizens from space-based Jew lasers.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-18 10:16|| 2021-02-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ..or better yet, her own government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-18 13:26|| 2021-02-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

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