Do as I say, not as I do?

What I’m going to do is give Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene exactly what she wants: attention.

However, what I want to say is this: Let’s ignore her (from now on). Or, to use Greene’s own words, let’s have a national divorce from here.

In just over one term in Congress, Greene succeeded

through through

her spotlight-seeking misdeeds to become the face, if not the de facto leader, of the new Republican majority in the House. Congress, her party and the nation are in worse shape.

Take her bland, divisive talk of a national divorce. You’ve surely heard by now, given the inordinate amount of ink, pixels, and airtime expended on the idiotic idea, which Greene called for red states to separate from blue states, citing irreconcilable differences.

I will speak for the right, she humbly tweeted last week, saying we are absolutely disgusted and tired of the left cramming and forcing us and our children to have their way without respect for our religion/belief, traditional values ​​and economic & beliefs of the government policy.

Greene is making her proposed legal agreement to break up the states sound relatively as easy as her actual divorce two months ago. Never mind that Americans are not simply divided

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outh, as in the Civil War, but rather urban-rural and through education, race, and generational demographics that don’t allow a split along a Mason-Dixon

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ine.

And where would Greene end up in this mishmash? Her own increasingly diverse home state of Georgia is no longer Republican-Red. It voted for President Biden and has two Democratic US Senators, one black and the other Jewish. Still, Greene, a former QAnon supporter and current associate of white nationalists, calls out a right Eden. She envisions Christian prayer in schools, anti-transgender laws, not climate-based environmental regulations

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cult lies and no sex toys on Walmart shelves.

Appears on Fox News, Greene doubled down on her silliness, filling in details and going from crazy to unconstitutional. She foresaw a large migration of Americans fleeing blue states for her idyllic Red Nation, saying the newcomers would have to forfeit their voting rights for five years so they don’t bring their bad politics with them, as a supportive Sean Hannity said.

But to discuss any of these wrinkles is taking Greene too seriously. she is to go us. She just wants to bring national attention to Fox News! provoking outrage owns the libs.

Let’s disown her instead.

When Green puffed her partition screed on Presidents Day does

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two weeks since she last made the national news, dressed like Cruella de Vil and screaming

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I am! at Biden during his State of the Union address.

Nearly 14 years ago, the House formally reprimanded another Republican, Representative Joe Wilson, for bellowing

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You’re lying! with President Obama during a speech on health care; Wilson was cited for violating decorum and degrading the proceedings of the joint session to the disparagement of the House. The Democrats were in the majority at the time, but both sides were shocked by Wilson’s rudeness.

Today, speaker Kevin McCarthy probably owes his job to Greene, that voucher for him to other hard

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Liners in the House, and her huge national following of right-wing voters and donors. As she matter-of-factly said in the New York Times last fall

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magazine writer Robert Draper speaks of McCarthy and her fan base

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it’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. And if he doesn’t, they will be very unhappy about it.

McCarthy disciplining Greene? As if.

I will never leave that woman, McCarthy reportedly told a friend. I will always take care of her.

McCarthy has secured Greene coveted commission assignments

included

on the Homeland Security and Oversight committees after Democrats had the nerve to strip her of her committee seats, partly because she approved of the assassinations of party leaders. She is now well placed to pursue her goals of ousting Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro

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mayors.

Republicans are intimidated or co

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elected, but don’t look to House Democrats to seek sanctions against Greene either. They don’t want to contribute to the MAGA money she rakes in when she plays the victim card. The more attention you pay to her, the more money she gets, a Democratic leadership aide told me. That’s why we don’t make an issue of it.

Greene’s unwarranted notoriety reflects how social media and the proliferation of right-wing “news” channels have changed our politics and made stars of once-obscure extremists. If our heads explode at every stupidity of hers, she wins.

For years, critics of Trump begged the media to leave him. We cannot, we would rightly say that he is the President of the United States. But she isn’t. And it is only as ubiquitous as we help make it.

Now I’ll do what I say:

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Pay as little attention to MTG as possible. You should too.

@jackiekcalmes