Ashli Babbitt: The Making of a MAGA Martyr

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Originally published at: Ashli Babbitt: The Making of a MAGA Martyr - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This story was originally reported by Jennifer Gerson of The 19th. Meet Jennifer and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. In the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump quickly took up the cause of a 35-year-old veteran named Ashli Babbitt. “Who killed Ashli…

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IMO Ashli Babbitt should be made into the poster girl for FAFO.

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She had agency. She chose which path to walk. She chose poorly.

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There is an assumption in the article that the message is to suburban women to be afraid of violent offenders. I think it is more true that it activates males whose instinct is to jump into action when a female is in trouble. “knight/damsel in distress” dynamic.

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How tragic for them that didn’t think to give her credit for writing a song they made the Party anthem before burying her.

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“After the shooting, many rioters began to flee the Capitol grounds.” I’ll bet…

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Up until the death of Ms. Babbitt the J6 insurrectionist treated the storming of the Capital as a joke, or prank, like toilet papering a rival high school during a football game.

When the Capitol Police Officer (after giving the mob multiple warnings to disperse) resorted to the use of deadly force:

…the investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber…

To use the vernacular, the sh*t got real after he fired that shot. It was not a game or a prank. And all those “Patriots” took off faster the Usain Bolt doing the 100 meter dash.

The Capitol Police officer may have fired the fatal shot, but Ms. Babbitt’s murderer is absolutely clear:

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I have this theory that there is very little emotional propaganda in America that is more effective than “One Dead White Woman”…and that an argument for this can be traced back at least to Narcissa Whitman, Protestant missionary killed in 1847 at the Whitman Mission in what is now Eastern Washington State.

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Yet, Renee Nicole Good is a “domestic terrorist”?