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WASHINGTON – A Georgia woman who has promoted the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday (Nov. 3), meaning the controversial and widely discredited movement will soon have voice in Congress.
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had never run for political office before, was way ahead and projected to win her race for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, about two months after President Donald Trump hailed her as one ” future republican star “.
But his promotion of QAnon, a far-right movement that claims Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, has come as a surprise.
“BIG PROFIT TONIGHT!” The 46-year-old said on Twitter after taking a commanding lead over her Democratic rival in the safe Republican district. “THANK YOU to the people of Northwest Georgia for choosing me to fight for them in Washington, DC!”
His August primary victory over a more mainstream Republican illustrated the radicalization of American politics ahead of Tuesday’s Election Day, which features Trump taking on Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the White House.
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She posted a slogan of “Save America, Stop Socialism,” posted videos of herself holding a semiautomatic rifle and warning against “antifa terrorists,” and vowed to be “Trump’s strongest ally in Congress.”
Greene has repeatedly criticized Biden and the Democrats, even reportedly using vile language against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and declaring that Democratic victories will erode American democracy and lead to socialism.
He has also called white men the most oppressed group in the United States.
And it promotes the smear that billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, a Jew who survived the Holocaust, was actually a collaborator who “turned his own people over to the Nazis.”
In 2017, he said that “Q is a patriot,” referring to QAnon’s alleged secret whistleblower who works from within the Trump administration to reveal the network of pedophiles and deep-state power brokers.
QAnon slipped onto the fringes of social media three years ago, but has since spread to the mainstream thanks to widely shared posts on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Trump fueled the controversy in October when he refused to directly condemn the group, stating in a televised town hall that he knew “nothing about QAnon”, only to say minutes later that “they are very much against pedophilia.”
