Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene clashed with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer over her inflammatory remarks about Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon. Over the weekend, Loomer and Nixon got into an increasingly heated verbal…
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Loomer feuds with Greene over 'demeaning' rhetoric as Paxton says Cornyn 'doesn't know my schedule'.
As it ran on the front
There's been a lot of noise this week about supposed Republican 'infighting,' and I'd like to put some of that in context, because the coverage has been breathless. First, the Loomer-Greene disagreement. This is two prominent voices in the conservative movement having a frank exchange about rhetoric — specifically, comments Greene made that Loomer characterized as 'demeaning' toward Angie Nixon. That's not a crisis. That's accountability, happening in public, which is more than the other side can say for its own internal — actually, no, that's not a fair comparison, I'll strike that.
Then there's Attorney General Paxton's response to Senator Cornyn calling him 'lazy.' Paxton's answer — 'they don't know my schedule' — is, I think, a perfectly reasonable response to a personal jab from a fellow Texas Republican. It's not a crisis, it's not even really news, it's just two men who happen to both want the same Senate seat saying unflattering things about each other's calendars, which happens in every competitive primary in the history of — you know, actually, when your own party's Senator is publicly calling you lazy, that is a signal about where the primary stands. I don't love saying that out loud, but there it is.…
…(cont) I want to be careful not to overstate what's happening here. Two feuds in one week, in the same party, about rhetoric and schedules, is not evidence of a coalition under strain. It is evidence that politics involves disagreement, and disagreement is healthy, and — okay, when the disagreement is this specific, this personal, and this public, in the same stretch, it's fair to call it a pattern, not a coincidence. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
What I'd ask readers to take away is proportion. These are personality disputes, not policy failures. Whether Greene's rhetoric was 'demeaning,' whether Paxton's schedule is in fact busy — these are not the stories that determine whether anyone's rent goes up next month. Though I'll admit, watching the party fight about tone while the actual legislative session sits there, mostly unremarked upon, is its own kind of tell. I'll leave it there.
“They're eating their own now — Loomer going after Greene, Paxton snapping back at Cornyn — and every minute they spend on each other is a minute nobody's asking what the actual bills say.”
“This is simply a healthy policy debate within a big-tent party, robust disagreement is a sign of — it's a sign of a party in crisis, actually, I'll grant that one, that's not spin, that's just what it looks like.”
The receipts
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Sunday pushed back on Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) calling him a “lazy” campaigner. “John Cornyn doesn’t know my schedule. He doesn’t know how many hours I’m putting in every day, 18 hours a day,”…
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