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      Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) fist-bumps Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)

      The Far-Right's Culture Wars Are Just a Distraction So Oligarchs Can Keep Looting the Working Class

      People like Marjorie Taylor Greene don't just emerge out of nothing: there's a hand above these puppets, feeding their bellies and pulling their strings.

      Thom Hartmann
      Mar 03, 2023

      Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for an American “divorce.”

      She apparently sees herself as a modern-day John C. Calhoun, a demagogue who serves the interests of the white oligarch class and, in turn, receives their support, and the power and wealth that come with it.

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      A worker replaces a sign over the office of U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy

      McCarthy Did Not "Cave" To the Right-Wing. He Is the Right-Wing

      When Marjorie Taylor Greene is the pivot on which "the mainstream" turns, then what exactly has the "mainstream" become?

      Jeffrey C. Isaac
      Jan 08, 2023

      After a bitter, grueling, melodramatic and days-long contest on the House floor, Kevin McCarthy was finally elected as Speaker of the House just after the clock struck midnight on the early morning of January 7.

      His “far-right” Republican opponents, led by Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, relented, after fourteen ballots, by voting “present” rather than for an alternative, as they had thirteen previous times. Gaetz in particular played his opposition for all it was worth. While it remains to be seen exactly what concessions McCarthy made to Gaetz and his gang—who numbered anywhere from 6 to 20 as the process unfolded—it is clear that huge concessions were made, related to House rules, committee assignments, and perhaps even the vigor with which the Republican Inquisition of both Biden and the entire federal government will now proceed (that such an Inquisition would the first order of Republican business has never been in doubt).

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      U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks to reporters as she leaves the U.S. Capitol on November 17, 2022 in Washington, D.C.

      'And Then What?' Asks Cori Bush After MTG Boasts About Armed Insurrection

      GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed over the weekend that the January 6 insurrectionists "would've been armed" and "would have won" had she and Steve Bannon been in charge.

      Kenny Stancil
      Dec 12, 2022

      Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia asserted over the weekend that former President Donald Trump's right-wing mob would have pulled off a successful coup had she and erstwhile Trump adviser Steve Bannon organized the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.

      "I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would've been armed," Greene said Saturday night at the annual New York Young Republican Club dinner, during which the club's president instructed a throng of white nationalists and other far-right figures, including Donald Trump Jr., to prepare for "total war."

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