A guide to the GOP’s ascendant congressional wing of bullshitters, cranks, zealots, and personal-life disasters.

BY BEN MATHIS-LILLEY

They are America’s local ding-dongs and loose cannons. And, increasingly, they represent the Republican Party’s interests in Congress.

Mr. Psycho Goes to Washington is not a wholly new story. Five-term Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar is apparently such a not-great guy to be around that six (!) of his siblings filmed campaign ads urging his constituents not to vote for him. (In February, Gosar was the featured speaker at a conference organized by a “white identity” fanatic who described the deadly Capitol riot as “awesome.” )

Never before, though, have our nation’s area weirdos dominated one party’s media presence and priorities as they do now:

1. Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert

2. North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn

3. Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson

4. Illinois Rep. Mary Miller

5. Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne, and of course

6. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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