Whataboutism and The Rise of the Flip Wilsonicans
The only thing missing was a turn directly to camera, let that grin creep across her face and tell everyone “The devil made me do it”
During her floor speech before she was stripped of committee assignments and relegated to Tweeting at her fellow members of Congress from the sidelines, Marjorie Taylor Greene uttered a rather remarkable string of words:
But you see, here’s the problem. Throughout 2018, because I was upset about things and didn’t trust the government, really because the people here weren’t doing the things I thought they should be doing for us, the things I just told you I cared about. And I want you to know, a lot of Americans don’t trust our government, and that’s sad.
The problem with that is, though, is that I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what I regret, because if it weren’t for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn’t be standing here today and you couldn’t point a finger or accuse me of anything wrong because I’ve lived a very good life that I’m proud of and my family’s proud of, my husband’s proud of, my children are proud of, and that’s what my district elected me for.
