Clarence Page writes: 'I had to polish my eyeglasses and put them back on for a second look before I could believe what the always provocative and occasionally rational Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted.'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as she offers an amendment as the House Rules Committee prepared the bipartisan Senate gun bill for the House floor at the U.S. Capitol on June 24, 2022.
On that, I agree. I have expressed similar criticism of the original “Defund the police” slogan as it emerged amid global protests by the Black Lives Matter movement following George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020. After the FBI search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, many Trump supporters have turned a slogan they hate into one that they love, even at the cost of the GOP calls to “Support the police” and “Back the Blue” going back at least to Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign.
“The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” he tweeted after the search. Now the locking of arms around “Defund the FBI,” amid other far-right hostility to agents who appear only to be doing their job, reveals strange new evidence of an old political wisdom: Sooner or later, all political movements begin to sound alike.
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