Amanda Marcotte (lovingly known as Mandy here at Victory Girls Blog) always goes the extra mile and a half to ascribe negativity to anything those on the Right do, think or say. We are not surprised that Mandy’s latest printed logorrhea is titled “MAGA loves a tantrum: How public meltdowns became the preferred method of GOP communication”. Her subhead is “Why Nancy Mace, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller keep throwing fits on camera”. It takes some crust to type that out after the way everyone on the Left has been having hysterical fits since November 5, 2024. Mandy’s problem is she’s so myopic she doesn’t know righteous anger from a toddler meltdown. I am here to help her out. The more you know!

As stated in her title, Miss Amanda calls out Nancy Mace, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. Miller and Hegseth both, in my humble opinion display, and are entitled to, their righteous anger. Nancy Mace, on the other hand, is not righteously angry and certainly isn’t throwing a tantrum. Let’s see what Mandy has to say about Nancy:

If there were an Oscar for the category “hard to watch,” I’d have to nominate the video of Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., barking expletives at a constituent after he asked her if she would have a town hall soon. It’s produced in a beauty supply store instead of a movie studio, but in a brief minute and 42 seconds, the video finds its place in the canon of horror films shot from the villain’s perspective. The camera focuses entirely on the story’s hero, a man in a polo and shorts holding a bottle of what appears to be face cleanser, as he holds his own against his congressional representative getting increasingly shrill as she yells invective at him. Even though he said nothing about gay marriage, she demands his gratitude for voting “for gay marriage twice.” When he gets annoyed at her reductive assumption, she calls him “crazy” and “absolutely f—king crazy,” and repeatedly says “f—k you” to him.

I am not a fan of Nancy Mace, never have been. She is so dead wrong here it’s frightening. Nancy is cursing up a storm in an Ulta Beauty. I am surprised that the staff did not ask her to leave, but if Nancy was in Charleston, they probably know her. This was a special kind of crazy:

Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off – and I won’t be backing down.

I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Try me. pic.twitter.com/Uv181Ovys0

— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) April 19, 2025

Nancy held the line against someone asking her (from about seven feet away) if she was going to hold a Town Hall this year. He’s not wearing Daisy Dukes or even Soffe Ranger Panties. Telling him that she voted twice for Gay Marriage assumes a lot. Dropping F bombs all over Hell and half of Georgia, when there might be children in the store, is insane. More from our dear Amanda:

To people outside the MAGA bubble, it’s a baffling choice. She’s not even a fun villain. There’s none of the sleek appeal of Loki from the “Avengers” franchise or camp glee of Ursula from “The Little Mermaid.” Mace is serving pure toddler here. She likely wished to throw herself to the floor and start pounding it, but doing so would have meant dropping her iPhone.

Mace isn’t wrong, however, to think that what most adults find embarrassing, the MAGA base will eat right up. The public meltdown, in which you declare yourself the world’s greatest victim, is the preferred GOP method of political communication these days.

Trouble was not really a victim; he really was that put-upon. So we MAGA-types, unlike Nancy Mace, tend toward righteous anger rather than a meltdown like Miss Mace showed. If she’s going to be “In the company of men” and women in leadership positions, she’s got to get some serious help.

Unlike Pete Hegseth and his children. I watched each child’s face and I did not see what Mandy saw:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth turned in two performances that would cause Al Pacino to tell him to settle down. While carping about “the fake news media” during the White House Easter egg roll, Hegseth’s whining got so pitched his voice started to crack, while his children stood behind him, embarrassed at the spectacle.

The video is not that long. See what you think:

I watched the kid’s’ faces and they looked like they were kind of proud of the “old man”. I would be. Pete’s voice did go sharp, but I don’t blame him. I thought he kept himself in check pretty well.

Last but not least, let’s talk Stephen Miller. From our Mandy:

Despite this effort, Mace didn’t even come close to nabbing last week’s gold star for the most histronic MAGA performance. She was outdone by Stephen Miller, whose usual register on TV is “verge of a nervous breakdown,” but got so shrill on Fox News Tuesday that Lauren Tousignant at Jezebel worried she’d soon have to “look at Stephen Miller’s face as he pops a dozen blood vessels as his brain explodes.”

Not shrill. I am gonna bet that if you had a BP cuff on Miller, his blood pressure would stay steady at 110/70. No worries about Stephen stroking out. This is righteous anger:

Despite this effort, Mace didn’t even come close to nabbing last week’s gold star for the most histronic MAGA performance. She was outdone by Stephen Miller, whose usual register on TV iserge of a nervous breakdown,” but got so shrill on Fox News Tuesday that Lauren Tousignant at Jezebel worried she’d soon have to “look at Stephen Miller’s face as he pops a dozen blood vessels as his brain explodes.”

I am a big fan, but like Caroline Leavitt (again, big fan), Stephen Miller can explain Trumpism better than Trump. And that, my friends is what really grinds Mandy up. She is mad that this time, Trump got his mandate and his men and women. That’s why she and everyone on the Left is having toddler meltdowns, almost on an hourly basis. That’s truly sad.

Meanwhile, leave Miller and Hegseth alone. They have earned their righteous anger. Nancy Mace just needs help. Bless her heart.

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