GOP Rep Wears Scarlet Letter: I’ve Been “Demonized”

The Charleston Post & Courier reports:

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace wanted to make a point. So she decided to do it with a bold reference to one of the best-known female protagonists in American literature.

On Oct. 10, the South Carolina Republican walked into a closed-door candidate forum for the next Speaker of the House wearing a white shirt with a large, red letter “A” on it. When asked about her outfit, Mace told reporters it was her “scarlet letter.”

In an interview with The Post and Courier, Mace said her decision was about more than making an overt nod to Hester Prynne, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterwork “The Scarlet Letter.”  She said it was about letting her colleagues know that she would not be pushed into silence.

Read the full article. Twitter had a field day, of course.