This is one of the finest paragraphs you'll read all year. Remarkable writing and reporting ...

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Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

This is one of the finest paragraphs you’ll read all year.

Remarkable writing and reporting, via
@mccrummenWaPo


https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/12/election-suspicion-georgia-greene-trump/

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[cilla4progress]

1. The irony is

She is the evil she fears!

[TeamProg]

2. Republican caused her brain to rot. It's mental illness I think.

Soon she'll be hearing voices and shooting up some place.

[cilla4progress]

3. For sure...

just read the story.

I know it falls under the rubric of a million articles from the diner parsing tfg voters and can be criticized for such...

But it seems we need to understand these voters to stop them.

One of the reporter's themes was "significance".These people feel their lives don't "matter," to use a word of the moment. So, they feel they are being jilted in favor of POC, immigrants, gender fluidity, poor people, the woke. Like it's a zero sum game.

Their EGOs drive fears of losing status, being ejected from privilege and resources.

So they turned to a corrupt carnival barker who stoked their grievances.

They are also drawn to autocrats. I think they think they will be part of the autocracy - be able to rule alongside them with impunity. All powerful like their god or the tooth fairy - grant all their wishes.

I don't know the answer other than shutting them down and shunning them.

[cbabe]

4. If you can't pass paywall:

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-burnitdown/

MTG constituent 'Burnitdown’ thinks Hillary Clinton ‘cut a girl’s face off and she wore it’: report

One of the most vocal supporters of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Rome, Georgia was the feature of a lengthy profile published online by The Washington Post on Saturday evening.

…

"In Greene, she did not see what much of America saw — a person willing to do almost anything to keep emotions running high, whether that meant perpetuating lies about election fraud, harassing a victim of a school shooting, speaking at a white nationalist conference or casting fellow citizens who disagree with her as 'domestic terrorists.' Instead, Rubino saw a person like herself: a political outsider who shared the same sense of urgency about the same dystopian America, one that required a popular uprising to save it," she wrote.

…more…

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. TFG supporters are idiots