Marjorie Taylor Greene Compared Joe Biden To LBJ

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If anybody ever wanted an instance of hard-right conservatives being out of contact with actually everybody besides hard-right conservatives, they needn’t look any additional than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s rant evaluating President Joe Biden to former President Lyndon B. Johnson.

On Sunday, Greene spoke at a conservative convention in Florida placed on by Turning Level USA, a right-wing group that pretends it’s not a white nationalist advocacy group based by a mediocre white man who didn’t graduate from neighborhood school however thinks profitable Black girls who went to Ivy League faculties “needed to go steal a white particular person’s slot.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene characterised Biden as a “Democrat socialist” who needs to finish the work began by Johnson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt by addressing points comparable to “training, medical care, city issues, rural poverty, transportation. Medicare, Medicaid, meals stamps and welfare.” She additionally stated Biden was seeking to full the “largest public funding in social infrastructure and environmental applications,” which she credited the aforementioned presidents with pioneering.

So, clearly, each non-conservative in America, together with Biden, thought of this to be some of the “don’t threaten me with a superb time” speeches ever written.

Critically, what did MTG even assume she was doing right here? I imply, I get that conservatives assume “socialism” is an unholy demon-summoning phrase that may trigger a military of zombie welfare recipients to rise from their coffins and begin stealing everybody’s cash whereas the Founding Fathers roll over of their graves (truly, all you’d must say is “Black persons are equal to white folks” for the founders to try this), however how is it not apparent that everybody outdoors of dimwitted MAGA cult goes to view what Greene thought was an insult as an endorsement for Biden’s second time period?

Anyway, because the thins house between MTG’s eyes precisely represents the dimensions of her important considering capability, it’s not shocking or fascinating that she thought she was hurting Biden by making him out to be the Mom Teresa of government legislators. What I do discover fascinating is that Greene, your favourite white nationalist’s favourite white nationalist, appears fully oblivious to the truth that she’s evaluating Biden in a destructive technique to the president who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Now, earlier than I’m going any additional, let me simply say I’m not right here praising LBJ as Black folks’s commander-in-white-saviorism as a result of he was nonetheless a racist simply as Abraham Lincoln was nonetheless a racist when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. For that matter, I’m not right here to reward Biden, the co-author of the 1994 Crime Invoice whose historical past of claiming racist issues rivals that of any of his Republican opponents within the upcoming 2024 presidential race.

All I’m saying is it’s fascinating how white Republicans by no means cross on a chance to say that Democrats advocated for slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK, but it’s the present GOP that seemingly stands in opposition to every part the abolitionist and civil rights actions fought for. (Simply take a look at the way in which Republicans dry-hump the Accomplice flag and battle in opposition to the tearing down of Accomplice monuments as a result of their heroes’ legacies should be preserved in any respect prices.)

Then once more, possibly Marjorie Taylor Greene merely didn’t know the extent of Johnson’s historical past. The lady who mistook a Union monument clearly labeled as a Union monument for a Conservative monument is actually no historical past buff (or studying buff or math buff or science buff—look, there’s simply nothing intellectually buff about her).

Or possibly, MTG heard in regards to the time LBJ blamed “white America” for the “breakdown of the negro household construction” and he or she dismissed him as an advocate for socialism’s evil reverse-racist cousin important race concept, which she likes to hate and loves, much more, to lie about.

After all, that wouldn’t be shocking since white conservatives additionally reward Martin Luther Kiing Jr. as an anti-CRT advocate for colorblind America when, in actuality, MLK truly stated loads of disparaging issues about white folks throughout his life.

By the way in which, MLK is the man who labored intently with LBJ to get civil rights laws handed.

Perhaps MTG forgot about that too.

Or possibly she’s simply racist.