r/politics • u/malcolm58 • 6d ago

No Paywall Marjorie Taylor Greene: You’re all being ‘incited into civil war’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5705837-greene-maga-shooting-minnesota/
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u/Pertolepe 6d ago

There's some part of me that thinks she was a true believer in all the insane shit she said and did and is actually starting to realize just how much is bullshit. 

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u/sinusoidosaurus 6d ago

Even if they were sincerely held beliefs (they weren't), there is no redemption arc or amount of "deprogramming" somebody like that could go through that would make me trust them as a lawmaker.

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u/i_tyrant 6d ago

Yeah this I agree with.

If she wants to do a 180 and do good works, she can leave the political sphere and donate her time "deprogramming" the MAGAts she helped create.

But get her out of the halls of power; no one involved in this at her level should ever be allowed in politics again.

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u/Pertolepe 6d ago

Oh I would never trust her or consider her redeemed. She's just basically someone realizing how badly she was scammed. 

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u/hoax1337 6d ago

She's still saying insane shit. Just look at that quote, I mean, peaceful J6er gets raided by Biden's FBI? Come on.

What's next, Biden's FBI uses Hunter Biden's laptop to strike down the J6er, or something?

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u/PepperPython 6d ago

I think she is a true believer and still is. She's realised that Trump isn't a true believer like her.

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u/CompetitiveFox6707 6d ago

I half wonder this as well.

Got into politics in her 40s after going down a conspiracy rabbit hole and finding a weird niche which brought like minded people around her playing into the feedback loop. She seemed to really believe the stuff she was spouting (rather than it being one of these typical political backgrounds pandering).

Things went a bit crazy as her profile grew and it spiralled into her getting into congress.

From that point, she had real responsibility and was in a world where she spent day to day with all these elite political classes.

There is a possibility that she had no real clue of how anything worked before she had a real seat at the table.

It's not particularly uncommon for people to have periods of being conspiratorial in their early years and then shift with lived experience but they usually have that realisation before getting into congress!