Rep. Nancy Mace has ripped Speaker Mike Johnson for the way he has run the House of Representatives in a New York Times op-ed, the latest sign of discontent among Republicans with the speaker.
Mace, a former moderate who moved hard to the right who is now running for governor, criticized Johnson and House leadership for closing the lawmaking process and concentrating it among themselves.
“Would opening up the floor lead to more conservative bills passing or more bipartisan ones? The honest answer is: It would do both,” she wrote.
“Some Republican priorities would finally get a vote. So, too, would common-sense bipartisan measures. The point is to do more and let voters see where their representatives stand. What we have now is the worst of all worlds: little accountability, transparency and results.”
I’m making a bad faith point by asking an honest question about whether or not this is a one-time thing or sexism? Mace has a lot of reasons to be criticized, her attire doesn’t need to enter the conversation. Criticizing women attire, if done more to them than men, is text book sexism. Your comment even proves my point more. You see a suit and think it’s a pass, but i could list lots of male representatives whose suits or styles i disagree with! From fit, shoes, socks, or the knot of their tie! To you these things may not matter but this is the equivalent of fighting over what color dress or type of footwear a woman makes. So why does it not matter when a man wears a shitty tied knot but a pink dress and cowboy boots someone needs to comment on it and someone else needs to 'splain im the one acting in bad faith? lmao. The only difference is that by and large the population is more critical of women attire to discredit their leadership. Think what you will about her but her attire has nothing to do with her ability (or not) to serve the people that elected her.
To answer your question directly, we shouldn’t focus on what any of them are wearing. Those things i mentioned about men’s suits? They don’t matter either.