![]() Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, agreed to help outside groups and Stefanik’s own PAC did, too. ![]() She’s here to tell you what’s going on in that back room - and that she’s going to put an end to it.Īfter the 2018 midterm elections, when 10 Republican congresswomen lost their seats, New York’s Elise Stefanik (once a reasonable human being, now another Harvard Graduate for Sedition) told Republican leaders that the party had to make electing women a priority. Recall Michele Bachmann in 2011, telling Jake Tapper, “What people see in me is that I’m a real person, I’m authentic.” And think of Marjorie Taylor Greene in these last couple of years, yammering on about the nefarious plots of the deep state, Jewish lasers and false flags. Now recall Sarah Palin at the 2008 convention, railing in her Wasilla twang against “the good-old boys” brokering their secret deals. North Carolina’s Sue Myrick wrote the foreword to “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” Helen Chenoweth, like Blackburn, asked to be called “Congressman” held an endangered-sockeye-salmon fund-raising bake and said armed wildlife agents in black helicopters were invading her home state, Idaho. “She would say things that are simply not true, or things that were picked up from the internet,” Steve Schmidt, a former top adviser to John McCain’s 2008 campaign, told “Frontline.”Įven when I was a young reporter covering Congress, the Newt Gingrich revolution ushered in a number of outrageous women who thrilled to their roles as troublemakers and conspiracists. ![]() There was Sarah Palin, who spellbound the base with her vaudevillian ad-libbing, sassy anti-intellectualism, denunciations of the lamestream media and laffy-taffy stretching of the facts. (In 2019, her first year in the Senate, she was deemed its most conservative member by GovTrack.) There was Representative Michele Bachmann, who went on national television and repeated a story about the HPV vaccine supposedly causing “mental retardation” openly fretted that President Barack Obama wanted to do away with the dollar and called herself “a foreign correspondent on enemy lines,” reporting on the nefarious doings of the Democrats. 6, to walk onto the House floor with her Glock.īefore Greene and Boebert, there was Representative Marsha Blackburn, now a senator, who declared a preference for the title “Congressman” and co-sponsored a 2009 bill requiring presidential candidates to provide copies of their original birth certificates. In her own freshman class, Greene has an outrageous comrade in Lauren Boebert, who once said she hoped QAnon was real and tried, post Jan. She’s the latest descendant in a lineage of Republican women who embrace a boffo radicalism, who delight in making trouble and in causing offense. This is the thought I keep returning to when I think about Marjorie Taylor Greene: That there is something depressingly familiar about her. Not only did female Republican elected officials become every bit as conservative as their male counterparts they began, in some cases, to personify the party’s most outlandish tendencies. Moderates of both sexes cleared out of the building. began to radicalize, becoming not just a small-government party but an anti-government party - a government delegitimization party - this taming effect ceased to be. It was a measurable phenomenon, even: Republican women voted to the left of their male counterparts in Congress.īut as the G.O.P. When I was coming of age as a journalist, it was an article of faith - and political science - that female Republican politicians subdued their party’s excesses.
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