The Biden White House’s political operation are dropping their initial wariness of calling out extremist Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene by name, seeing benefit in drawing more public attention toward the QAnon-fueled batshittery going on in the House GOP, Politico reports.
“Those dangerous conspiracy theories took hold. These people got big followings. There was not enough leadership from the Republicans in charge when it came to this. And so early this year, he made a decision that was in line with why he chose to run in the first place: he had to specifically condemn this and show how false and dangerous it is,” a Biden ally told Politico. “We could not sit by and fail to challenge that, because their party was negligent. He talked with historians and advisers about it. Pretending these threats didn’t exist would only help them grow.”