Marjorie Greene declares war on media ‘garbage’ and politically correct ‘poison’

But the media, Democrats, and a few Republicans have dubbed her a wingnut, whose views on Muslims and race and her past engagement with QAnon threaten the party.

To which, the 46-year-old mother of three who owns a regional construction firm with her husband said: Go pound sand. “That whole rhetoric is a ridiculous amount of garbage,” she said. “I really don’t care what they have to say.”

Photo courtesy Greene for Congress campaign.

If that sounds Trumpy, it should. She’s a huge fan and said his arrival was a signal that she could openly share her conservative views.

“I believe political correctness has been like a poison slowly dripping into the water system,” Greene said. Trump, she added, “came across to me, similar to myself and other people, as just plain ordinary. He spoke in plain language, and he spoke the truth. I think that’s what we’ve been missing.”

His voice gave her freedom. “I ripped the duct tape off my mouth and said, ‘Let’s roll with this,’” she said of her political activism.

Greene, a softball mom who traveled thousands of miles with her daughter Taylor, now a catcher at the University of Arkansas, dove into politics, followed Trump closely, and listened to conservative talkers, such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Confusion about the Russian collusion story brought her to content from QAnon, a conspiracy that claims that a group of powerful sex traffickers is working to take down Trump.

“I was curious,” Greene said. “Russian collusion? What? No, this doesn’t make sense. So yes, I was a normal person who looked up stuff on the internet, big deal. And then, I’m fine with talking about things. I was willing to post it and talk about it — and sometimes believe things that maybe I thought were true at the time, and then, no, no, I don’t think this is true. I’m not ashamed of that whatsoever.”

A candidate who speaks forcefully and arrives at debates with a stack of background papers, she added, “I can’t imagine people actually wanting people to serve in Congress that aren’t willing to ask questions, aren’t willing to research and find more information out, and aren’t willing to address something to figure it out and figure out what we do about it.”

A shooting fan who prefers Georgia-made Daniel Defense AR-style semi-automatic rifles, she also drove to Washington to fight against a GOP gun control compromise in 2017.

She became more active and turned her attention to the House seat opened by the retirement of Republican Rep. Tom Graves.

Along the way, she made comments about Muslims and on race that, while not uncommon on talk radio, were dubbed racist and Islamophobic in the media and ripped by some in House GOP leadership.

As a result, when she won the runoff for Georgia’s 14th District this month, NPR headlined: “QAnon supporter who made bigoted videos wins Ga. primary, likely heading to Congress.”

But Greene said that doesn’t represent her or her campaign, one supported by several key congressional conservatives, such as Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.

“I’m not running for Congress for any other reason than to truly make effective change and pull the Republican Party to the right and hold people accountable and work hard to do what we’re supposed to do,” she said.

Stick to that plan, advised Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist and former spokesman to House and Senate leadership. “The media spotlight on Greene is going to be red-hot once she’s a freshman member of Congress and one that’s arrived amid some controversy,” he said.

Bonjean, who has specialized in crisis communications, added, “If she really wants to get beyond QAnon, then she’ll need to focus on her committee assignments, do the work of her district, and understand that her words will now have a megaphone that can either help or hurt the Republican Party.”

Greene said she’s up to the challenge.

“I look forward to showing people more of who I am versus what the media has tried to tell everyone or [what] campaign people think they know about me because that was all a bunch of garbage. I’m looking to show people what a hard worker I am and how excited I am to do the job,” she said.

Criticism by the media or GOP insiders won’t stop her, she said.

“If you get beat up in the media, OK, you get beat up in the media. But if you are doing the job, it shouldn’t matter,” Greene said.

And to her skeptics in the Republican ranks, she added, “I think instead of anybody ‘worrying’ about Marjorie Greene, they should be excited that there’s somebody as passionate and outspoken as me that really wants to stop socialism and stop the Democrats’ anti-American policies. And so for my future colleagues, they need to know that they are going to have a fighter willing to fight against the Left, and I really don’t want to fight against the Right.”