it is bad that there is a political movement that rewards being an antisocial asshole. we should probably do something about that
Materialist Gnostic
a) she's been having a years-long breakdown in public
b) people having breakdowns are not all hate-mongering bigots as a result and that is still on her
c) I hope she gets the help she very obviously needs, which includes repentance.
BeijingPalmer
FWIW, I got to know Nancy Mace pretty well when I got back into reporting after being an editor. She was always fairly conservative, albeit somewhat heterodox. But I realized her outright transphobia and otherwise increasingly unhinged behavior sort of happened in tandem.
