To be completely frank, it’s highly unlikely that Georgia’s QAnon Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene will lose her House seat in the upcoming election. As unfortunate as that is, it’s just the truth. But, just because MTG will likely win another congressional term doesn’t mean that she’s well-beloved, even in her own hometown.
In fact, it seems many GOP officials in her area have begun to turn on her in the worst kind of way, while her own voters and constituents have started to publicly express their embarrassment at even having to admit that Greene is their representative.
The Guardian’s David Smith now reports from the scene of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hometown of Rome, Georgia, where MTG carries a high favorability for another congressional term in an area where Confederate flags are of the most used home decor and “Three in four people are white and three in four voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.”
But believe it or not, not everyone in the area loves Greene or is proud to call her their congresswoman.
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Two-term city commissioner Wendy Davis spoke with the publication and said that the only reason Marjorie is in Congress as we speak is because she managed to slip through the proverbial cracks.
“The runoff was basically who loves Trump more? Although the media and some people had dug into this QAnon mess that she was a part of, none of the other Republicans made that an issue in their primary. Nobody had said, ‘She’s a little out there.’ Nobody had said, ‘What do you mean September 11 was a fake inside job?’” Davis explained.
Smith goes on to report for the publication that Marjorie isn’t exactly beloved among local GOP leadership either.
“Local Republican officials here are said to be privately dismayed by Greene’s antics since she took her seat in Congress, which have included calling for Joe Biden’s impeachment and prison visits to rioters arrested after the January 6 insurrection. Mirroring their national counterparts’ deference to Trump, however, they mostly remain silent in public,” his report reads.
And it gets worse still for the QAnon congresswoman.
One local insurance agent, 49-year-old Julie Svardh, didn’t hold back when asked for her opinion on the infamous MTG.
“I’m embarrassed to be from her district. She’s a national laughingstock. The things that she says, she doesn’t know basic words. She couples off with the worst people in Washington and is very annoying. She’s not bright and she’s a bully. She’s definitely not somebody you want representing where you live,” Svardh spit.
“People blindly supported Trump in this area and so anyone who supported that person just got lumped in. People didn’t read a lot or really look at the details and see what people stand for,” the local voter went on to explain.
Executive editor of the Rome News-Tribune, John Bailey, was yet another local to lay into the highly-controversial lawmaker and laid the majority of the blame for Greene’s election success at the feet of voters in a district that has become locally notorious as a “hotbed of extremism.”
Bailey explained, “Do you have that? Yes. Is that the minority? I think so. Do you have reasonable people who don’t consume good information? A lot. I’m not saying these are dumb people, I’m just saying their information consumption is habitually bad. I have friends who are intelligent people but their information consumption habits have been bad for a long time. They don’t intelligently consume media. Top that on decades of ‘those politicians don’t care about us’, top that on ‘the media is looking for an angle.'”
He went on to offer his thoughts on the local voters who seem to simply turn a blind eye to Greene’s rhetoric and behavior, saying, “They’re very forgiving of gaffes and other things that they may not like because this person kind of speaks for them. The problem that you’re dealing with is rooted in apathy and rooted in this feeling of not being connected or not being important or not being represented.”
It seems that while she may manage to secure herself another undeserved term, there’s certainly not a lot of love left for Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.
Read the full report from The Guardian here.
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