Marjorie Taylor Greene’s vapid gender politics

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For a truly bizarre two-minute viewing experience, you might click on the latest artifact of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fixation on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In a since-deleted video, which CNN preserved and resurfaced Friday, the Georgia Republican crouches outside the office of the New York Democrat and delivers a monologue into her mail slot.

The video, which was apparently recorded in 2019, shows Greene accusing Ocasio-Cortez of wearing a “diaper” and saying she should come out of the office like a “big girl,” but the weirdest part — and trust me, this is saying something — is when Greene announces to the mail slot, “I’m a woman! I’m a female business owner! I’m proud to be an American woman!”

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