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"More Trumpist than Trump", who is the essential Marjorie Taylor Greene, candidate for the midterms?

2022-11-04T19:13:05.986Z


PORTRAIT – Unknown to the general public before 2020, accustomed to racist remarks and “fake news”, this conspirator close to QAnon is on the way to being re-elected in Georgia.


She likes to call herself a

“Christian nationalist”

.

Follower of conspiracy theories and close to the QAnon movement, fervent supporter of firearms, favorable to a “Christian” government, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), who is trying to get re-elected representative of the 14th district of Georgia – and will probably succeed – is not afraid of overbidding.

Little known before her surprise election to the House of Representatives in 2020, she has since become essential within the Republican Party to the point of being courted by her pundits.

Like her "mentor", Donald Trump, the 48-year-old elected official is accustomed to racist, anti-Semitic outings or even "fake news".

"She's a pure Trumpist in style, she's extremely outrageous, she's built against the well-meaning of mainstream Republicans and Democrats.

She is even perhaps more extreme, more Trumpist than Trump”

, advances Tamara Boussac, lecturer in American studies at the University of Paris…

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Source: lefigaro

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