Crash Course: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were doomed to feud — there can only be one MAGA queen

These two know that the far-right is like the Smurfs: There's only room for one lady. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmmPW9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvODdqM3hnaTFiZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWN4cGhraG43cWhXA3NwY0IKZKXAcLZkxeh9RFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmmPW9P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZDlsNWUwMDg5ei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWN4cGhraG43cWgmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKXAcLZkxeh9RFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were doomed to feud — there can only be one MAGA queen Amanda Marcotte: Patriarchy depends on women fighting each other for scraps. Keeping women hating each other prevents them from teaming up to take on the real enemy, i.e. the men that keep them down. That Greene and Boebert would be pitted against each other was fate. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmmPW9P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOGhzYTE1NndtZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWN4cGhraG43cWgmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKXAcLZkxeh9RFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Win McNamee/Getty Images) "Train and socialize": Expert on linguistic anthropology explains how Trump is warping MAGA minds Marcel Danesi, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of "[Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmmPW9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdXNqbnQyaG9wai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWN4cGhraG43cWhXA3NwY0IKZKXAcLZkxeh9RFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)," talked to Chauncey DeVega about how right-wing demagogues like Trump are able to use metaphors and repeated codes and tropes as part of a larger rhetorical strategy that manipulates and triggers their targeted public on an almost subconscious level. 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