Marjorie Comes to Town

$50 photo ops, a Chinese spy balloon and low-testosterone husbands: A darling of the right headlines a local GOP fundraiser

BY NATE SANFORD

It’s golden hour in North Idaho, and everyone is yelling at each other.

The protesters number almost 100. They chant — “Love lives here!” — as the sun melts over Lake Coeur d’Alene. A clean-cut, grinning man named Alex Stein darts in and out of the crowd, wearing a baseball cap with an American flag on it and getting inches from the face of a protester carrying a drum.

“You’re exploiting your children,” Stein yells. “You’re the pedophile!”

The protesters are gathered outside the Coeur d’Alene Resort to oppose a visit from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Republican known for her culture-warring and embrace of conspiracy theories. Greene’s speech, hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee for their annual Lincoln Day Dinner, took place Saturday. Tickets were $175 and had been sold out for weeks.