Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops A Left-Wing Bombshell
With Governor Brian Kemp’s recent decision not to run for Senate next year, it won’t surprise anyone when Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene declares her candidacy.
It’s somewhat more surprising that she seems to be planning to compete in the Democratic primary, challenging Ossoff from the left.
At least, that’s the logical assumption to be made from her recent tweet, reciting verbatim a long list of 20-year-old far-left talking points from Code Pink.
Sure, you could have a long and busy (if not particularly fulfilling) career making fun of MTG’s profligate tweets. But given the timing, on the heels of the Senate race being thrown wide open by Kemp’s opt-out, one can’t help but take this one as the closest thing to a foreign policy position statement we’re likely to get from such a candidate.
Which is why it’s remarkable that it could have been copied and pasted from any far-left message board circa 2003.
I’m not saying there’s no room for a principled anti-war stance in a rational conservative coalition, should such a thing ever have the opportunity to exist again at some point.
But that’s not what’s going on here. It’s just the same tired, reflexive anti-Americanism that was formerly confined to a barely relevant fraction of progressive Democrats, repackaged for a new market, and with a twist we’ll get into in a moment.
Let’s look at some of that new packaging. Putin was going to sweep across Europe but couldn’t even take Ukraine in three years? Right. Because we’ve been arming the Ukrainians. If Reagan had ever gotten this kind of opportunity to cripple the Red Army without endangering even a single American service member, he’d have given their opponents three divisions of armor and a fully loaded aircraft carrier by now.
The only reason Putin hasn’t done the above is the very policy that MTG hates and wants to rescind. That’s not peace, it’s surrender.
Likewise with Iran. Yes, they’ve been on the verge of having nuclear weapons for a while, which is why we and Israel have been working to prevent that outcome. We were told such efforts were “a terrible deal” back in Trump’s first term, and he scrapped the agreement that was in place then, only to now want a new one.
Did America do everything right in dealing with Russia, or Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or even Vietnam? No, of course not. These are complicated global issues with decades if not centuries of history behind them. This is exactly why reducing them to a bunch of infantile talking points as though all the world’s problems could be solved with a sick burn was so infuriating when the Very Online Left spent the first 20 years of this millennium doing it.
Hey, maybe since the Georgia GOP is so big these days on kicking out Republicans who aren’t pure enough for them, they could take a look at a sitting US Representative tweeting out old media blasts from the Kerry/Edwards campaign.
Oh, and as for that twist? When we get to the end of the tweet, we find out that the real problem, according to Rep. Greene, isn’t war. It’s that we’re warring with our enemies instead of our allies. Peace for Russia and Iran, but bombs and special forces for Mexico.
And Greenland. And Canada. And Panama, and maybe the UK, and we’re looking at Gaza. El Salvador has already been established as our penal colony. Hey, if those cardinals don’t get their act together and elect Trump as Pope, maybe we’ll take the Vatican too!
This isn’t coherent, consistent pro-peace policy. It’s not even retread 2000’s leftism, exactly. It’s just stupid, and unbefitting of any member of the United States Congress, let alone one who aspires to its upper house.
