Code breakers

Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar.

That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime.

And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more.

Ask yourself who is the real enemy?

A young low level national guardsmen?

Or the…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 13, 2023

"White"--well, obvious white racist appeal 

“Male”-even women don’t count? (Males are normative.)

“Christian” is the interesting one. Not “how does she know?” (especially among younger people, religious beliefs cannot be assumed), but why does she include it? “White” and “male” are not surprising; but what’s “Christian” doing in here? If Obama was president, we could safely assume this was a slap at Jeremiah Wright. But the President is Joe Biden, a very public Catholic.

This is a dog whistle for rural Southerners who are more likely to consider Catholics to be Satanists than Christians. Not all Southerners at all; just those likely to listen to MTG. Biden hates white men (who feel most threatened), and Biden isn’t Christian. So he’s at war with those groups, the people MTG is protecting. And MTG’s appeal is very narrow; and very ugly. It’s based on bigotry in every way a person can be bigoted.  And, of course, you’ve got to have enemies.

Yes, it’s all bullshit:

The editorial decisions behind this article are troubling. It presents Teixeira as a paradox, a patriotic guy from a patriotic familiar who nonetheless leaked a mountain of classified info. Definitely side with America and was from a military family etc, https://t.co/R5W03sHR02

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2023

3/ If Tim McVeigh had lived this might literally be his son, literally as well as figuratively.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2023

5/ clearly put together the pieces to explain who this guy was, the agenda, the worldview, the danger etc,

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2023

But it’s very carefully coded bullshit. And not even all that coded.

“Ask yourself who is the real enemy.”

Turns out Teixeira is the “right” kind of Catholic:

Just heard MSNBC live reporter say that there are no indicators Jack Texiera—hard right Catholic gun zealot & conspiracy theorist who hated government, called Ukrainians pigs, and screamed racist & antisemitic memes—has any “political motives.”

— THE UNDERTOW, by Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) April 14, 2023