Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a chilling comment this week, saying, “The enemy is throughout the Home of Representatives.” When questioned by reporters about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s abhorrent behaviors, Pelosi mentioned Republicans wish to deliver weapons onto the flooring of Congress, have threatened different members of Congress, and is defending a member who proclaims the Sandy Hook Elementry Faculty and Parkland Faculty shootings had been staged and that the California Wildfires we’re attributable to Jewish lasers from the sky.
For the reason that January sixth violent Trump-incited insurgency on the Capitol Bldg. Congressional Republican management has uncovered its full-on dedication to the lie that the presidential election was fraudulent and stolen from Trump. That lie led to five folks being killed on the Capitol insurgency and has began a motion primarily based on anti-government ideology, violence, racism, anti-Semitism, and propaganda over info. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln are rolling over of their graves.
The embrace of Taylor Greene by the Republican get together is not going to finish nicely for them. Regardless of Trump’s maintain on his base, Trump’s presidency didn’t finish nicely. He misplaced re-election, was impeached for a second time, misplaced each homes of Congress to the Democrats, and left the U.S. with the worst financial system since 1948. Trump defends in opposition to being held accountable in any method for the tanking of the financial system by blaming the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the place that protection collapses is within the actuality that he lied in regards to the severity of the virus, led an anti-masking marketing campaign, and promoted weird anti-science remedies as an alternative of offering management and funding for testing and speak to tracing. Claiming he did an amazing job till COVID got here alongside is sort of a surgeon anticipating reward and credit score for performing half of a reliable surgical procedure after which taking no blame for botching the tip of it.
Most therapists hardly ever see sufferers who maintain beliefs like these held by Marjorie Taylor Greene. Such beliefs are commonest in folks affected by severe psychiatric sicknesses the place pondering types don’t align with actuality. She has promoted beliefs held by the perimeter group QAnon, who promotes the narrative Trump is waging a secret warfare in opposition to Satanic pedophiles in authorities, enterprise, and the media. In addition they promote the eventual execution of Hillary Clinton and different Democrats.
Taylor Greene’s perception that the lifeless our bodies of the youngsters murdered at these college shootings had been staged is severely disordered pondering. Simply as unhealthy can be her figuring out the shootings had been actual and spreading a lie for political acquire. Her cruelty proven in the direction of the grieving mother and father of the victims of college shootings signifies a uncommon type of disordered character. Moreover, Fb posts from 2018 and 2019 have Taylor Greene supporting cries to have Nancy Pelosi assassinated. Republicans comparable to Senator Mitt Romney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger have publicly declared her a humiliation to Congress and never a real Republican, nevertheless, nearly all of Republicans are cowering in silence. In alignment with Trump, Taylor Greene assaults non-Trump supporting Republicans as viciously as she assaults Democrats. Trump and his supporters throughout the authorities present loyalty to staying in energy and the selling of conspiracy theories and disinformation over loyalty to get together or nation.
On Twitter the opposite day, Taylor Greene tweeted she had spoken with Trump and that ” she has his backing.” She has develop into the image of the degraded character and disordered mental functioning of the bulk voice of the Republican get together. In his embarrassing ousting from workplace, Trump seems to nonetheless be dedicated to spreading fringe conspiracy theories, use power-hungry corrupt members of the Republican get together, and manipulate hate-group militias to assist him desperately hold on to energy and full his aim to rework the American democracy into an autocratic type of authorities.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s second in energy, like Trump’s, will implode as a result of her character flaws will finally be rejected by the character and power of our Structure and nearly all of the American folks. Honoring the voices of those that voted for her should not be the figuring out think about whether or not our authorities tolerates hate-based, conspiracy theorists holding workplace.
Whereas Minority chief Kevin McCarthy and different Republicans in Congress unfold the lie of a stolen election and incite extra violent intentions in opposition to our authorities, President Biden is undistracted by the GOP circus and undeterred in his dedication to ending the pandemic and offering financial reduction to the American victims of Trump’s incompetence.