Rumor control is that SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace is considering a run for Governor. If it's true, then the recent tweet she sent out might give an indication of how she plans to attract voters:
Mace has in the past made a spectacle of herself by picking fights with the trans leaders, allies, and the community in general. And all the name of "women's safety,
At least that's her claim.
Thus far, she has continuously verbally targeted trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride, threatened to fight another Congresswoman (Jasmine Crockett) for daring to question her motives, and had a trans ally arrested for assault (the charges were later dropped) when all he did was merely shake her hand. And the day after the alleged incident, she was seen several times in the halls of Congress walking around with her arm in a sling.
With the above tweet, Mace could be indicating that she is stretching her net of scapegoating to ensnare entire LGBTQ community She is embracing the very old, but very effective, lie that schools are somehow teaching students to be LGBTQ and even the acknowledgement to kids that LGBTQ people exist is akin to teaching them about sexual intercourse, encouraging them to be transgender, or whatever the bigoted narrative may be at the time. The irony is that Mace was an "ally" to our community, but she claimed that the trans community was the reason why she turned against us.
Her eagerness to embrace the ugliest smears about our entire community pretty much says that she was lying.
Or in layman's terms, full of shit.
According to Mace's former employees (Mace was labeled as a toxic boss with a 100 percent turnover rate in The New Republic), she absolutely craves attention. There is even a story confirmed by former staffers that Mace wanted to confront the mob who rioted at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 with the goal of getting roughed up.
From The Huffington Post:
Former staffers who spoke to the (Washington) Post on the condition of anonymity said Mace was furious with the former president for inciting the riots and believed video of a violent altercation would “give credence to her anti-Trump position.”
Three sources who spoke to The Daily Beast corroborated the Post’s report, saying they heard Mace explicitly telling staffers she intended to “get punched in the face.”
“She literally begged us to let her leave the office and head to the floor so she could ‘get punched in the face’ and ‘get media attention,’” one former aide told The Daily Beast. “That’s word for word what she requested.”
The source added that there were “several of us in the office who heard it.”
No doubt Mace is counting on the (maybe fair, maybe unfair) reputation of South Carolina as a redder than red state to ride a wave of bigotry and ignorance to the governor's mansion. Whatever the case may be, I would suggest that South Carolina's LGBTQ community start preparing themselves just in case.
And above all, be ready for anything.
Mace has also been called a joke by former staffers, but that doesn't mean her possible political aspirations shouldn't be taken seriously. As the present situation in the White House should tell us, political jokes who actually win are no longer funny.
And that's probably because the voters get hit with the punchline.
