Glenn Greenwald
What has always made @mtgreenee so rare in DC is she was never a professional politician or close to those circles before being elected. She is the Founders' ideal of a citizen-legislator: has a real non-political job, and normal life, then gets inspired (in her case by 2016 MAGA) to run for Congress. But she purposely avoids being a DC creature. She spends as much time as possible in her district, to stay connected to their views and concerns, not those of DC think tanks and big donors. One of my favorite lines uttered by a member of Congress was when she objected to Biden's bombing of Yemen, and then just as vocally to Trump's when he did the same, by saying: nobody in my district talks about Houthis or even knows what a Houthi is let alone feels threatened by them. Why are we bombing them? To a paid political/media insider, that sounds unsophisticated and dumb. In reality, it shows how few DC officials actually care about, let alone give voice to, the views and interests of those who vote for them, how far removed official DC and its consensus bipartisan dogma are from what most people care about. Most of her past poorly thought through views often cited to discredit her (QAnon, the false quote of "Jewish space lasers") came because she, like many Americans, wasn't depending on official DC scripts used by all party operatives. That she has so thoughtfully evolved on so many questions is exactly what we should hope our elected officials do, especially ones who aren't professional politicians. The more they learn how DC works, the more they learn its grim reality rather than the noble propaganda, the more willing they should be to renounce past dogmas they ingested, own up how it happened, and learn from it. MTG is clearly doing that:
Emily Jashinsky
All the way back in 2021, @mtgreenee made one of the most important floor speeches in recent history — explaining exactly how she got sucked into the world of Q conspiracies like other regular Americans — and everyone just completely ignored it.
