I could have predicted the behavior of Michelle Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Green at the State of the Union address is not surprising. They couldn’t have forgiven themselves if they failed to act out outrageous before so large a television audience. The rest of Congress booed them, but that was part of the plan. These are two cheerleaders playing to “the base,” and the base loves disrespectful behavior, hence part the appeal of the militant boor, Trump. 

These people, Michelle & Marjorie, Trump and his base, were never taught the conventions of good manners and common courtesy, and they are to a surprising degree embarrassed because they are ill-prepared to behave as adults, because they do not know the correct way to act. Rising up from the disadvantaged base is an animosity towards adults and the educated that is far more intense than we thought. Trump, with his 5th-grade vocabulary and play-ground insults, is, for his base, the public figure of their dreams. And Michelle, Marjory, Matt, the Capitol insurrectionists, et al., with their proclivity to hillbilly gags, guns, and violence, are heroes to the base, not because they irritate the libs, but because they have no respect for the adults.

What will M&M do to follow up heckling during the State of the Union address? Mooning the Congress, sending a box of dog poop to the President, putting cellophane wrap on the toilets in congressional wash rooms, setting off fire-crackers during opening prayers — who can say. All I can say is that to surpass themselves, they will have to come up with some really gross shtick.