Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Monday, September 09, 2024

Marjorie Taylor Greene's New Book Reads Like 1 Thing, Says Searing Guardian Review

A new book by far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) “duly reads like an audition for the No 2 slot on the 2024 Republican presidential ticket,” according to a scathing review published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

“Venom, score-settling, fiction, self-absolution, self-aggrandizement. Greene’s book, ‘MTG,’ has it all,” former Justice Department attorney Lloyd Green wrote in the critique, published Sunday.

Greene toadies up to former president and Republican 2024 front-runner Donald Trump, lies about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, “embraces the insurrectionists who attacked Congress,” and “offers a meandering defense of her famous comment about so-called Jewish space lasers, insisting she is not antisemitic,” says the reviewer.

Despite promising to tell her “side of the story” in the Canada-printed memoir, the lawmaker does not directly address some of her most controversial moments, such as when her support of the idea of executing Democrats saw her stripped of House committee assignments, Green notes.

“Under Trump, retribution and vengeance are Republicans’ fuel. Greene wants to sit at his right hand,” Green concluded his review of the book, which was released by the Donald Trump Jr.-founded Winning Team Publishing.

Critics on social media, meanwhile, have suggested another use for the tome.

Original Article
Source: huffpost.com
Author: Lee Moran

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