Paradoxically, by seeking to punish Trump and Greene, Democrats may actually be helping to perpetuate the cycle of victimhood and complaints about “cancel culture” that each uses to crank up the anger of their radical base. Greene has seized Trump’s mantle by remaining defiant and insisting that she will not apologize for her mistakes in interviews and social media posts. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the move by Democrats to take away the congresswoman’s committee assignments a “partisan power grab.”
Rather than taking full responsibility for her actions in her Thursday speech, Greene said the media that exposed her lies and lunacy is as bad as the QAnon conspiracy theory she espoused. She called Democrats — rather than Trump’s rioters who invaded the Capitol on January 6 — a “mob.”
“It’s not just me they want to cancel. They want to cancel every Republican,” she tweeted on Thursday before the vote. “Don’t let the mob win.”
The Trump playbook
Greene is following a familiar playbook. Trump has long used the idea of victimhood as an anchor of his appeal to…
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