Bathroom Batman and the Governors Gambit
Part 3 of The Palmetto Problem
Greetings and happy Friday, my brave defenders,
We’ve made it through another week in the land of the free and the home of the (increasingly) bewildered. If you’re feeling like Hermione Granger trying to explain basic facts to a room full of Cornish pixies, trust me—you’re not alone. Truth feels like a spell we have to cast over and over again just to get through the noise.
But take heart: we’re not alone in this battle. And together, we keep turning the pages, chapter by chapter, until we reclaim the narrative.
Today, we arrive at Part 3 of The Palmetto Problem — or as I like to call it, the countdown of South Carolina’s Top 5 Least Wanted Representatives. And we’ve saved the most performative for last. It’s time to talk about the one figure who stands out above the rest — not just as a threat to our democracy, but as a danger to the very fabric of who we are as Carolinians.
It’s time to talk about Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
A Bully with a Smartphone
Nancy Mace brands herself as a bold truth-teller, an “independent conservative voice” unwilling to play party games. But the truth? She plays the oldest political game in the book: punching down.
Take her recent social media stunt: she cornered a gay man in a grocery store and filmed the encounter—not to seek truth or dialogue, but to show her most rabid followers how devoted she is to Donald Trump. A bully with a smartphone, not a stateswoman with a spine.
And yet, just two days after vaguely teasing a possible run for governor, Mace suddenly remembered her “moderate” mask and rushed to condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene and other far-right figures for ties to white nationalism. Where was that concern last month? Last year? When extremism was rising and communities were at risk?
It wasn’t a problem for Mace until she might need the votes of South Carolina’s African American community to win the Governor’s Mansion. Her timing is no coincidence. It’s a strategy—one that treats people’s lives and struggles as political chess pieces.
She wraps herself in the flag and flirts with liberty, but when push comes to vote—she leans whichever way the D.C. winds blow. She’s not leading a movement; she’s marketing a brand.
Pro-Education? Or Just Anti-Intellectual?
Mace calls herself “pro-education,” but her record paints a different picture.
When South Carolina schools lose crucial grant funding, she’s nowhere to be found. Not a press release. Not a policy proposal. Not even a tweet.
Instead, she uses her taxpayer-funded office to dig through college websites, weaponizing isolated links or academic language she finds offensive to gin up outrage online. Rather than defending our state's children from crumbling school systems or addressing the needs of students on Medicaid, she’s busy producing viral content to stay in the algorithm’s good graces.
A real leader might contact the university president or bring her concerns to the board. A real Southern woman might handle disagreement with grace. But Mace doesn’t do that. She uses her office as a bully pulpit and her interns like opposition researchers—not to build better policy, but to build better posts.
And while families across South Carolina brace for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Nancy Mace is nowhere to be found. Not fighting. Not leading. Not even commenting. Thousands of seniors, children, and low-income families in her own backyard could lose access to basic care — and yet she’s more concerned with college course descriptions than keeping grandma’s prescriptions filled. For someone who claims to “stand with the people,” she sure stays quiet when those people need her the most.
South Carolina’s families deserve a representative who defends their children’s education—not someone who spends her days fighting culture wars from behind a phone screen.
“Protecting Women” by Policing Them
Her nonsensical flip flops don’t stop there, Mace loves to say she’s out to “protect women.” But her policies and statements suggest she’s more interested in controlling them.
She supports legislation that defines womanhood by conception—a bizarre and scientifically debunked idea that doesn’t even match the curriculum of College Biology 101. Which is strange, given that she graduated from The Citadel—a place you'd hope would teach basic science along with honor.
But her real aim isn’t biology—it’s obedience. Mace champions policies that endanger women who don’t meet her narrow standard of femininity. She’s not protecting women—she’s shutting out those who don’t fit her ideal.
And what happens to the cancer survivor who’s had a double mastectomy and dares to look too masculine in a public restroom? What about the tomboy, the athlete, the butch lesbian? Under Mace’s definition of “woman,” these people are no longer safe in public spaces. They’re suspects. They’re targets.
As a woman, she should know better. But instead, she legislates like a bully in pearls—building walls instead of bridges, throwing out common sense in favor of political stunts, and playing purity police while families just want privacy and peace.
Back the Blue? Until It’s Politically Inconvenient
Nor does her opportunism stop with women. Nancy Mace never misses a chance to post about her love for law enforcement. She’s front and center every National Police Week, hashtagging her “support” for the men and women in blue—until it really matters.
When the Capitol was under siege on January 6th, brave officers stood between her and a violent mob. Some of those officers lost their lives. Others still carry the wounds—visible and invisible—of defending the House of the People.
So what did Mace do when it came time to hold those attackers accountable?
She turned the other cheek—not to forgive, but to ignore. She quickly moved to downplay the violence and supported pardons for the insurrectionists who assaulted police and trampled democracy.
Apparently, their loyalty to Trump excused their lawlessness.
So let’s ask the hard question: if Nancy Mace wouldn’t defend the police who saved her, what makes you think she’ll defend South Carolina’s officers when Trump or his loyalists call for pardons again?
Remember: the president can only pardon federal crimes. It will fall to governors to decide whether to honor justice—or bow to pressure.
And Mace? She’s already shown us who she’s willing to let walk free.
Not a Republican—Just a Radical in Designer Heels
Nancy Mace loves to call herself a Republican. She’ll invoke Reagan, praise small businesses, and toss around words like “freedom” and “liberty” like confetti at a campaign launch.
But strip away the hashtags and talking points, and what you find isn’t conservative—it’s authoritarianism in lipstick.
A real Republican believes in small government. Mace believes in government that’s big enough to police your gender, your bathroom habits, your reading lists, and your university lectures—but too small to fund your school or protect your healthcare. She doesn’t want limited power—she wants personal power with no limits.
Her version of conservatism is nothing more than a radicalized self-portrait, enforced by legislation and amplified by outrage.
Let’s be honest: this isn’t about Republican values. It’s about Mace’s values—shifting, shallow, and selectively applied. Today it’s anti-trans rhetoric; tomorrow, it’s slamming a college syllabus she never read. She’s not building a coalition—she’s crafting a stage.
And at the center of it stands a wannabe Hilly Holbrook in a red blazer—deciding who’s clean enough, proper enough, and worthy enough to belong in her version of South Carolina, all while pretending it’s about “family values.” But we’ve read this script before. It doesn’t end in liberty—it ends in exclusion, division, and decay.
The Curtain Falls
Nancy Mace is not the rogue rebel she pretends to be. She isn’t standing on principle—she’s surfing political trends, adjusting her message with the wind, more interested in algorithms than accountability.
She’ll film herself ambushing a stranger in a supermarket to prove her allegiance to Trumpism, but she won’t lift a finger when South Carolina schools lose funding. She’ll go silent when Medicaid is on the chopping block, but will spend hours scouring a college website to manufacture outrage for clicks. She condemns extremism only when it threatens her own ambitions—not because it threatens our republic.
She says she backs the blue, but when they bled for her, she backed down.
But this is not the South Carolina way.
This is a state forged in rebellion—from the Swamp Fox Francis Marion, who outwitted redcoats with guerrilla genius, to generations of South Carolinians who, for better or worse, believed in standing firm against overreach and fighting for their version of freedom. Ours is a legacy of grit, independence, and—above all—principle.
We are the heirs of revolutionaries. Patriots. Fighters. And with that heritage comes a responsibility—not just to resist tyranny from without, but to recognize performative opportunism from within.
Today, we let the curtain fall on vanity disguised as vision, on bullying masquerading as bravery, on hashtags instead of heart—and on Nancy Mace, whose unmatched inconsistency, calculated cruelty, and desperate hunger for attention have proven she is dangerously unfit to govern the state that started a revolution.
Let’s send this Holbrook stand-in back home with exactly what she’s earned: a one-way ticket to the obscurity reserved for those who never stood for anything but themselves—served with a big ol’ slice of humble pie.
Until our Next Bold Move
— Lady LiberTea
🌟 Enough is enough—it's your turn.
Friend, if you’ve made it this far, you already know more than most of the people running your life from behind a podium. If you’ve ever read the Constitution, understand how a bill becomes a law, or know the difference between a press conference and a principle — congratulations. You are already more qualified than some folks holding office today.
This isn’t just about pointing fingers — it’s about picking up the torch.
We can’t keep waiting for someone else to be brave. Not when our Secretary of Health can’t spell “science,” and our President fumbles the Constitution like it’s written in Latin. Not when governors-in-waiting are more concerned with Twitter trends than teacher pay, and federal lawmakers spend their days rage-scrolling college websites instead of protecting your healthcare.
You can do better. We need you to do better.
So, what are you waiting for?
👉 Run for Something — your school board, your city council, your statehouse. Don’t just talk back. Take back the future.
Yours in fire, fight, and freedom,
—Lady LiberTea
Thank you for sharing. I hadn’t heard of Nancy Mace before and I appreciated you showing why she would be a poor choice for governor. I liked this article a lot.