Is Rep. Marj. Taylor Greene The New Face of the GOP? Bee Nguyen (D) Ga. State Rep, ME Hayden, SPLC

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Feb. 1, 2021. Republicans face increasing pressure to strip Georgia Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene of her post on the House Education Committee. Greene was elected in Nov. 2020 & is a far-right conspiracy theorist who has promoted QAnon, supported the execution of House Speaker Pelosi, & claimed the school shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, & Parkland, Florida, were staged — as was the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon. She also has a history of racist, anti-Muslim & anti-Semitic comments.

Bee Nguyen (D) Ga. state representative, recently joined other lawmakers in signing a resolution that calls on Greene to resign. “The congresswoman has proven to be dangerous, not just to our state, but to our country,” says Nguyen. We also speak with Michael Edison Hayden, sr. reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who says media discussions of QAnon & other far-right conspiracy theories tend to focus on how outlandish they are rather than on their hateful content. “While some of these ideas are crazy-sounding to people, I think it’s very, very helpful to start reframing it in your mind as something that is part of this drift toward anti-democratic, hard-right, authoritarian tendencies in the Republican Party,” says Hayden. "This is a new world."

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1. K&R for visibility

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2. She Feels Good when Things are Going Wrong in the Country. Whatta Piece of Garbage!

Plus: Shirley Manson is both way cooler and way hotter than MTG.