Representative Lauren Boebert, who represents Colorado s 3rd Congressional District, has very much modeled her political career after her orange-hued hero, Donald Trump. This makes a twisted type of sense for a woman who tried to become a model through a website contest and whose Rifle restaurant is mainly about selling shirts.
Optics are central to the Trumpian strategy adopted by Boebert, which is why her most recent bill introduced for consideration isn’t about the financial security of middle-class Americans, or the health of a nation still suffering under the scourge of the pandemic. Instead, she’s doubling down on the false outrage that so fuels what passes for her base, by calling for the protective fencing that had to be erected around the Capitol to be moved to the southern border of the United States. She employs incendiary language in doing so, of course, calling the barricades Fort Pelosi and trotting out Trump s old line about how now-President Joe Biden spent l