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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Van Taylor [1]

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Date: 2023-01-18

Welcome to what is the 1176th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’re profiling Van Taylor, the former U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 3rd Congressional District who served from 2019 through 2022, and prior to that, spent eight years bouncing around the Texas state legislature. He had a failed bid for office in 2006 in Texas’ 17th Congressional District, but made no headway in general election due to the Democratic wave election of that year.



We’ll spare you all the details of Taylor’s voting record, suffice to say, it’s a consistent pattern of being an obstructionist from the minute Democrats took control of the chamber in 2019 during all of his tenure, with the one notable exception being when he voted for the creation of a January 6th commission… But his career was done during the 2022 primary for his seat, when he missed the 50% cutoff for his seat and knew going into the runoff he would be branded as the guy who was cheating on his wife with the widow of an ISIS Jihadist.



Really, as much as Republicans demonize Muslims, the fact that when no one’s looking, one of their own ended up shtupping a woman The Atlantic once referred to as “The First Lady of ISIS” (she has since started offering reprogramming therapy to Islamic extremists, regrettably, also bumping uglies with Republicans)… the hypocrisy of a party that invents conspiracy theories about what Democrats are doing behind closed doors with rumors about a “Muslim Brotherhood”, they just keep getting caught doing worse things.



So anyway, we’re not going to delve into this profile any more, except for noting the sex scandal, and not just the hypocrisy of a supposed “family man” who opposed same sex marriage getting caught in an affair of his own. It’s a story we just keep seeing told about members of the GOP year, after year, after year.

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