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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is the GOP

Nadin Brzezinski
9 min readFeb 2, 2021

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When one looks at the modern-day Republican Party, at times we may ask, how did it become this radical? How could they have somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene elected? Why is the Minority Leader afraid of his shadow, or more accurately his far-right? This is not a useless question, for what we face right now is a radicalized white supremacist party that did not start this way.

This is why they are punishing Liz Cheney for voting for impeachment, but Marjorie Taylor Greene remains. This is why a member who is openly anti-semitic, who believes in the Zionist Occupation Government and false flags is heading to the education committee. There is a line from Taylor-Greene straight to the John Birch Society, posing though Speaker Newt Gingrich.

How did we get from a moderate Conservative party to a far-right nationalist, white supremacist Party? America First is not new, though it finally made it to the White House under Donald Trump. Nor is this idea that the country is fighting a nefarious conspiracy trying to transform it from a light among the nations, and the home of liberty, into part of a global government: The New World Order.

These ideas were prevalent with American Nazis in the 1930s. They became central to the John Birch Society in the 1950s and 60s. However, the GOP of the 1960s saw the Birchers as too radical. Why the party…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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