{"id":527977,"date":"2022-12-16T06:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T06:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T03:09:25","slug":"gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#GOP is wasting a winning hand with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a409b34acf77\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a409b34acf77\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump\/#%E2%80%9CGOP_is_wasting_a_winning_hand_with_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_Trump%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;GOP is wasting a winning hand with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump\/#MTG_Trump_self-harm\" >MTG, Trump self-harm<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-is-wasting-a-winning-hand-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump\/#A_grim_%E2%80%98defining_moment\" >A grim \u2018defining\u2019 moment<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGOP_is_wasting_a_winning_hand_with_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_Trump%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;GOP is wasting a winning hand with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Douglas Murray\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to think of a time the Democrats left so many scoring opportunities for the Republicans. Look at what is affecting ordinary households. And then look at the things the Democrats are making a priority of.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week President Biden was at the White House warning of an America in which \u201ca person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.\u201d Just where exactly has that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened? Can anyone name anywhere? I\u2019ll bet not. But still the president rambled on, that \u201cThis is still wrong. Wrong.\u201d To great applause. Because the president can always rely on a crowd to agree with him about things that don\u2019t happen still being wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the other side of the country in California, what does one of Biden\u2019s would-be successors concentrate on? Well, Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om is considering how much money descendants of slaves ought to be given in cash. Gov. Newsom set up his reparations committee in 2020 and, amazingly enough, it has come back with recommendations that California state should pay descendants of slaves as much as $223,200 each. That would add a total of $569 billion in state expenditure. Which is more than the entire state expenditure of California last year. Newsom is now mulling the move. What priorities!<\/p>\n<p>So a legislature that had no responsibility for slavery and is struggling to keep the electricity on this year is going to further bankrupt itself by this ridiculous gesture? One in which people who are not responsible for slavery hand over billions of dollars to people who have never experienced slavery. This is a priority \u2014 in a state which is struggling with power outages, chronic homelessness, crime and drug abuse?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1442311202.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Greene also said that she would have made sure that the riot was armed. \" class=\"wp-image-25033010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1442311202.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1442311202.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1442311202.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1442311202.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Jan. 6 would have been successful if she had run it. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MTG_Trump_self-harm\"><\/span>MTG, Trump self-harm<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Such moments should give the Republicans everything they need. And yet now, just as you think the Republicans can run it in, we see members of their own team commit vast, stupendous acts of self-harm.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Consider the behavior of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. When she first arrived on the scene I thought Greene was just one of those representatives every party throws up at some point. Someone who is simply mad as a box of frogs. A sandwich short of a picnic. That sort of thing. But Greene has used her time in Congress to make some of the worst possible alliances and give her opponents almost all that they need.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the year she could be found at a conference organized by a nasty little anti-Semite and troll of the right called Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n<p>This week she was back at it, here in New York, talking at an event sponsored by the New York Young Republican Club. There she gave a speech that might have been handed to her by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Referring to the January 6th attack on the Capitol she said \u201cI want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won.\u201d As icing on the cake for the Democrats she added, \u201cNot to mention, it would have been armed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. Another fumble. Soon The New York Times and others were zooming in on the \u201cfar-right conference\u201d in Manhattan and using the discredited and dishonest \u201cSouthern Poverty Law Center\u201d to label everyone in attendance as \u201cfar-right.\u201d So the left\u2019s search for right-wing bogeymen or women actually finds one. And then gets to rally their own base \u2014 and part of the political center \u2014 for the next round.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trump-trading-card.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The cards depict Trump in a variety of costumes and backgrounds. \" class=\"wp-image-25024668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trump-trading-card.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trump-trading-card.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trump-trading-card.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Trump\u2019s announcement was that he was creating $99 trading cards of himself. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/collecttrump<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is the Republicans\u2019 big beast at Mar-a-Lago doing throughout all this? The man who has insisted that it is his life mission to save the Republic? Well apart from even now harping on about the \u201cstolen\u201d 2020 election, Donald Trump had a \u201cmajor announcement\u201d this week. He announced on his \u201cTruth <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a>\u201d account yesterday, \u201cMy official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection is here!\u201d He promised \u201climited edition cards featuring amazing ART of my Life &amp; Career.\u201d I would defy you to look at this \u201cart\u201d and declare it \u201camazing.\u201d But Trump went on to promise that at only $99 each these \u201cgreat Christmas gifts\u201d would sell out \u201cvery quickly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is enough to make you weep. The Democrats are misgoverning not just at the city, state and national levels. As with the missed opportunity of the midterms this should be the perfect moment for the Republicans. They should find this the easiest political period in history. Inflation and cost of living are beating everyone down. The Democrats are obsessing about the most fringe policy issues. But whenever they need to justify this I guarantee they will do so by making MTG the most famous Republican in the land over the next two years. All while the alleged King in Exile is trying to make 99 bucks a shot on a crappy set of trading cards.<\/p>\n<p>Someone has to save the Republican Party \u2014 and the Republic \u2014 fast. Here\u2019s looking at you, Florida.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_grim_%E2%80%98defining_moment\"><\/span>A grim \u2018defining\u2019 moment<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Talking about things that are enough to put your head in your hands, The Post this week reported that the Cambridge Dictionary has decided to change its definition of \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman.\u201d As The Post reported, the dictionary now defines a woman as \u201can adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.\u201d The definition of \u201cman\u201d is more of the same nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it is laughable. But there is also something sad about it. I remember at the start of this century we all had such high hopes for what we might achieve by now. There was talk of space <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> of course, but also the marvels of the Internet, underwater cities, an end to disease and poverty. Yet here we are, more than a fifth of the way into the thing, and the smartest people on Earth seem to be spending their time trying to work out what a woman is. Not a good start.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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