Beowulfian politics

If there is one thing that has severely disappointed me about the coverage of the recent attempt to form an "Anglo-Saxon caucus" in the House, it was that no one was talking about how "Anglo-Saxon" does not mean what the caucus wanted it to mean. Well, here's Alexandra Petri to fix that:

Okay. This seems like it was pretty clearly just supposed to be a dog whistle and now you’re tripling down.

“When I spoke,” cried Marjorie Taylor Greene, hammering shield with sword,

“I weighed each word! Let us have maethlfrith!

Let us have drihtinbeage! We must make America Geat again!