Opinion: There are no Marjorie Taylor Greenes in the Democratic Party

[DonViejo]

Opinion by Max Boot
Columnist

May 17, 2021 at 1:11 p.m. EDT

Republicans like to deflect attention from their alarming turn toward the hard right by accusing Democrats of being the real extremists — the party of “the Green New Deal, court packing and defund[ing] the police,” in the words of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. This is a grossly deceptive framing insofar as none of these policy items has actually been endorsed by Democratic leaders.

In reality, most of the real left-wing extremists, such as antifa fighters, disdain the Democratic Party as too moderate and “corporatist.” By contrast, right-wing extremists — who think the 2020 election was stolen from former president Donald Trump, refuse to wear face masks or get covid-19 vaccine shots, and believe the crackpot QAnon conspiracy theories — are very much in the mainstream of the Republican Party.

There is no clearer indication of the gulf between the two parties than the confrontation last week between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a star of the left who is known as AOC, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a star of the right who is known as MTG. Last Wednesday, two Post reporters observed Greene accosting Ocasio-Cortez as the latter was exiting the House chamber. Greene was badgering Ocasio-Cortez, loudly demanding, “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?” (Short answer: She doesn’t.) Greene came across as a creepy stalker; Ocasio-Cortez as a grownup who refused to engage.

This is only the latest example of Greene harassing Ocasio-Cortez. CNN uncovered a video from February 2019 showing Greene and some of her friends — including a man who would later enter the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection — taunting Ocasio-Cortez from outside her office door. “We’re going to go see, we’re going to visit, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Crazy eyes. Crazy eyes. Nutty. Cortez," Greene says to the camera, sounding pretty nutty herself.

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[Bleacher Creature]

1. Nor are there any Louie Gohmerts, Jim Jordans, Lauren Boeberts, etc.

The two parties are not mirror opposites and haven't been for at least the last 30 years.

[Probatim]

2. We have AOC, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Mazie Hirono, and a host of badasses.

The r's have a clown bus huffing their own farts.

If they didn't have gerrymandering, civil war election rules, right wing media, piss poor public education, ALEC, and the Heritage Foundation, none of those jackasses would have ever gotten elected.

[Pepsidog]

3. So called Democrats in Congress want to give you hire wages, better healthcare, better planet. Rs

want to give tax cuts to the wealthiest. They take from the poor and give to the wealthy.

[Pinback]

4. That's just like, your opinion, man

... Actually, it's a fact. Good to see a conservative like Max Boot pointing this out.

[Warpy]

5. I disagree, there are a lot of them

mostly in the south and midwest, who inherited party affiliation from their parents and just never bothered changing it. I know this because I've known so many of them.

The difference is that we don't generally elect them to national office. State and local, yes, they do slip through.

Greene is just proving the Eleanor Roosevelt quote that great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, and small minds fixate on people. I'd far rather see her than be her. I'd hate to go through life with those limitations.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. Clowns and bomb-throwers

Play an important role in conservatard governance.