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David Knowles writes,
"The response from many Republican lawmakers to President Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday marked a new low for civility in politics in the United States."
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Heather Cox Richardson writes,
"When he began to talk about future areas of potential cooperation, Republicans went feral. They heckled, catcalled, and booed, ignoring House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) attempts to shush them. At the State of the Union, in the U.S. Capitol, our lawmakers repeatedly interrupted the president with insults, yelling 'liar' and 'bullsh*t.' And cameras caught it all."
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February 7, 2023
And then there was President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address. This is the annual event in our politics that gets the most viewers. Last year, 38.2 million people watched it on television and streaming services. What viewers saw tonight was a president repeatedly offering to work across the aisle as he outlined a moderate plan for the nation with a wide range of popular programs. He sounded calm, reasonable, and upbeat, while Republicans refused to clap for his successes—800,000 new manufacturing jobs, 20,000 new infrastructure projects, lower drug prices—or his call to strengthen the middle class.
"Extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), her hands cupping her wide open mouth to scream at the president, became the face of the Republican Party."
MaryOMary writes to Heather Cox Richardson,
"The photo of that one woman, her mouth stretched open in a howl of hate; it brought to mind the faces we saw so long ago gathered behind Black schoolchildren as they headed toward newly desegregated classrooms."
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beth The nation should not deceive itself about the face it's seeing — the face of the Republican party — as it sees Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia screaming vile words in the face of the president.
This is the face of white Christian nationalism. Those who liive in areas of the country long dominated by white Christian nationalist ideology know it well.
We remember it well from the distorted faces of white citizens screaming at black children integrating schools.
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JenX@wdlindsy And she had the nerve to wear that ridiculous fur in suffragette white, of all things. It’s like putting lipstick on a pig.
F.L. Cocozzelli@wdlindsy Well done, Bill.
@FLCocozzelli Thank you, Frank. The connection is just crystal clear to many of us who lived through that Civil Rights era and saw those faces. We're seeing them all over again on the national state right now, as people like Marjorie Taylor Greene scream hateful epithets at Joe Biden.