If Republicans are going to define the Democratic Party as AOC and the so-called squad, perhaps Democrats should define the Republican Party as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, and a few others. But for this post, I want to pull together some observations on Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon conspiracy theorist elected to congress by voters in Georgia's 14th Congressional district.
Taylor Greene initially built a following with social media posts and videos. She's a pusher of conspiracy theories, including The Clinton Kill List, which maintains that Bill and Hillary Clinton have orchestrated the assassinations of over 50 people. Greene has also endorsed the notion that 9/11, the Sandy Hook massacre and the Parkland school shooting were hoaxes, and she claimed that Hillary Clinton tells Nancy Pelosi several times a month that we need more school shootings so that we can have gun control. Greene is also an exponent of conspiracy theories alleging that prominent Democrats run an international pedophile ring.
Katie Hopkins recently interviewed Marjorie Taylor Greene. You may know that Hopkins became a celebrity after her 2007 appearance on the reality TV show, The Apprentice. Subsequently, Hopkins became a columnist noted for racism and hard-right politics that ultimately lead to being banned from Twitter and fired from a radio station. Hopkins and her publishers have repeatedly paid significant damages for her defamatory remarks, but it's Greene's comments during the Hopkin's interview that are especially unsettling.
And here's Marjorie Taylor Greene pushing the election fraud lie and insisting that we CANNOT allow a peaceful transfer of power.
Eric Hananoki has uncovered some crazy anti-Semitic conspiracy-mongering by Greene. In a Facebook post, Greene proposed that the “Vice Chairman of Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” may have used “space solar generators … beaming the sun[’]s energy back to Earth” to fire a “laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth” to “cause” the 2018 Camp Fire in California in order to manipulate the stock market and line the pockets of “Rothschild Inc,” “Solaren,” and Sen. Dianne “Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum.”
Then there's this gem of a campaign ad posted by Taylor-Greene, which itself could be exhibit A on the need for restrictions on who can legally possess a firearm.

To be clear, this is an image of Greene displaying a military-style weapon and suggesting that she is the worst nightmare for certain members of congress. What are we to make of the phrase "worst nightmare?" Well, what's the worst a person with a gun and a boatload of animosity could do? Maybe a person talking about being someone's worst nightmare while holding a gun suggests that she's going to kill those on the receiving end of the nightmare? I spell all this out because the capacity for denial among Trump supporters is breathtaking. This ad was a threat. How are the targeted members of congress supposed to feel working around this woman? In a private employment setting, police would have called, Greene would have been fired immediately, and the company might have gotten a judicial restraining order to keep her off company property and its immediate vicinity.
And on Facebook, "[in] one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the 'deep state' working against Trump." And, "in response to a post raising the prospect of hanging former President Barack Obama, Marjorie Taylor Greene responded that the 'stage is being set.'"
Additionally, a video has emerged of Parkland-denier Greene harassing a teenaged David Hogg on the street with baseless conspiracy theories. In the video, Greene told Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor, that she carries a gun. When Hogg, who presumably did not know Greene, ignored her, she called him a "coward" for not answering her questions. For his part, Hogg said he felt threatened by the encounter and practiced mindfulness to remain calm.
In a stark demonstration of Taylor-Greene's rank hypocrisy, a local TV reporter was kicked out of a Taylor-Greene town hall event and threatened with arrest for asking her about the conspiracy theories she is known for spreading.
So who is the coward?
There are other reports and accusations regarding Marjorie Taylor Greene's outlandish behavior and conduct. These are just a few.
For those who would respond to Greene's anti-Semitic conspiracy theories by noting that Ilhan Omar said of American policy toward Israel that "it's all about the Benjamins," I would point out that Omar was saying donor money influences US policy toward Israel, In some sense, this is a banal observation about US politics. A lot of US policy is about donor money, so why go with this anti-Semitic stereotype? That's why I would say the statement may very well reflect anti-Semitism on Omar's part. I would also point out that Democrats quickly condemned Omar's comments, and Omar apologized. I am not remotely a fan of Omar, but Taylor-Greene's anti-Semitic conspiracy theories dive much deeper into crackpot neo-Nazi territory, and, most importantly, she refuses to apologize for her comments.
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