I have a theory.
I've heard the men talking about MTG and her reasons for leaving congress. I've heard them pontificate over her reasons for standing up for the Epstein survivors and coming into the MAGA crosshairs. And I imagine some of those theories are true. But I have a theory of my own:
Marjorie Taylor Green is a survivor of sexual assault.
I have no proof. This is my supposition. But hear me out: Epstein became the hill she was willing to die on. Her disgust for children's sexual predators was loud and very much out there. She never backed down from this one.
I think men will look at the politics and say she's distancing herself from the MAGA implosion. She might be. As a woman I question why she never wavered on this knowing that Donald Trump's name is all over those reports. And that's because she's invested, personally invested, in seeing predator's brought to justice. Because hers never was.
It's 100% speculation and might never be known. But as a survivor I know I'm watching another survivor do the only thing she knows she has to do and that's save at least one other girl from what she went through.
It is possible, of course.
ReplyDeleteBut also, she may be reading the political winds and taking the most profitable exist ramp available to her right now. (AOC apparently said, "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.")
I myself doubt that Trump being in the Epstein files was the trigger because Epstein's friendship with Trump has been known for a decade, if not longer, and Trump's own pedophilia has been also well documented.
Of course, people are complicated, and it may be as you say, or even a combination of factors forcing her to acknowledge now things she never allowed herself to admit before.
Either way, she's still the person who has called for murder against those she doesn't like; my hope is that she is never again in a position of power over anyone, anywhere.