{"id":25044,"date":"2021-02-03T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/03\/is-far-right-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-the-new-face-of-the-gop-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:30:11","slug":"is-far-right-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-the-new-face-of-the-gop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/is-far-right-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-the-new-face-of-the-gop-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Far-Right QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene the New Face of the GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republicans face increasing pressure to strip Georgia Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene of her post on the House Education Committee. Greene was elected in November 2020 and is a far-right conspiracy theorist who has promoted QAnon, supported the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and claimed the school shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida, were staged \u2014 as was the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. She also has a history of racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic comments. Bee Nguyen, a Democratic state representative in Georgia, recently joined other lawmakers in signing a resolution that calls on Greene to resign. \u201cThe congresswoman has proven to be dangerous, not just to our state, but to our country,\u201d says Nguyen. We also speak with Michael Edison Hayden, senior reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who says media discussions of QAnon and other far-right conspiracy theories tend to focus on how outlandish they are rather than on their hateful content. \u201cWhile some of these ideas are crazy-sounding to people, I think it\u2019s very, very helpful to start reframing it in your mind as something that is part of this drift toward anti-democratic, hard-right, authoritarian tendencies in the Republican Party,\u201d says Hayden.<\/p>\n

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