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Last fall, Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, was flying out of Charleston when a security detail that was supposed to escort her to her gate was slow to arrive. According to onlookers, Mace exploded. \u201cFucking incompetent,\u201d she reportedly said, while asserting that she was \u201ca fucking representative\u201d and questioning why she wasn\u2019t being \u201ctreated like a senator.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was one of a growing number of incidents in which the congresswoman is said to have engaged in unprofessional, strange, or even somewhat sad behavior. In February, New York<\/em> magazine reported that Mace had been having staffers create burner accounts to defend her on social media, and to allegedly boost her standing on Reddit forums about the \u201chottest women in Congress.\u201d An employee manual from Mace\u2019s office that was leaked to the press outlined demands for television bookings\u2014at least one per day for national outlets, and six per week for stations airing in her district\u2014that spoke to a voracious appetite for attention. The report by New York<\/em> magazine said that former staffers have whispered about Mace\u2019s drinking and marijuana use. Cameron Morabito, Mace\u2019s director of operations, denied these allegations, saying, \u201cI hope she sues for every time you got paid to write this defamatory bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mace\u2019s alleged behavior would be a concerning pattern for anyone. But it is perhaps even more unusual given that, in August, Mace launched a long-shot bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina. She now trails Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson in polls, and is expected to lose in the state\u2019s June 9th primary\u2014a defeat that could well end her political career.<\/p>\n

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When she was first elected to the House of Representatives, in November, 2020, Mace was one of the G.O.P.\u2019s rising stars. \u201cA compelling new voice urging her party to change its ways\u201d is how the Times<\/em> described her. In 2022, she did what many Republicans have found impossible: won her re\u00eblection primary even though President Donald Trump had endorsed somebody else. In recent years, she has rebranded, casting herself as a loyal Trump acolyte, eager to wage culture war on behalf of a party that is not ready to move on from him.<\/p>\n

New York<\/em> reported that some of her former aides\u2014who have left Mace\u2019s office and campaign at a staggering rate\u2014trace her downward spiral to February of 2025. That\u2019s when Mace gave an incendiary presentation on the House floor. Standing beside a poster board featuring photos of her ex-fianc\u00e9, a Charleston-based businessman named Patrick Bryant, and of three other men, beneath the word \u201cPREDATORS<\/em>,\u201d she described Bryant and his associates as \u201ca cabal of rapists, this cabal of sex traffickers, this cabal of Peeping Toms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Mace, in late October, 2023, she found photos and videos of unconscious or \u201cincapacitated\u201d women\u2014and at least one person who looked to her to be an underage girl\u2014being sexually assaulted by Bryant and several of his friends. Mace says that, on Bryant\u2019s devices, she also found photos and videos taken of women and girls without their knowledge, including when they were nude or in sexually compromising positions.<\/p>\n

During her speech, Mace said that as she sorted through the material she came across a video of a nude woman who clearly did not know that she was being filmed. \u201cShe was slender,\u201d Mace said. \u201cShe had long, brown hair.\u201d It gradually dawned on Mace that the woman was her. Later, in a different speech in the House chamber, Mace displayed a nude photo of herself, one that she says Bryant took without her consent, using a hidden camera. She also claimed that later, when their relationship was subsequently ending, she was physically assaulted by Bryant, an incident that she says left a scar.<\/p>\n

Bryant and his associates have denied all wrongdoing, and Bryant is suing Mace for defamation. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed that an investigation into Bryant\u2019s conduct was opened in late 2023; Mace\u2019s office says that at least two other women have since come forward to accuse Bryant of misconduct. If more information about these alleged incidents comes to light, it\u2019s not likely that we will hear about it: Bryant and Mace are now both under a judge\u2019s gag order as their various legal cases against each other play out in South Carolina courts. (The accusations Mace levied during her February presentation were protected under the House and Debate clause of the Constitution.)<\/p>\n

But Mace\u2019s remarks on the House floor are now echoing across South Carolina. In her 2025 floor speech, Mace addressed the state attorney general, now one of her opponents in the gubernatorial primary, saying that law enforcement mishandled the case when she came forward. \u201cWomen who come forward are treated like criminals under your leadership, in your system, and on your watch,\u201d she said. \u201cAttorney General Alan Wilson, you know there were deliberate delays,\u201d Mace added. \u201cTwo hundred and twenty-eight days of delay.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. That\u2019s seven months, two weeks, and four days of delay.\u201d Wilson called the accusation \u201ccategorically false.\u201d \u201cSouth Carolina\u2019s got a choice,\u201d Mace wrote on X when Wilson announced his candidacy last June. \u201cWe can keep electing politicians who protect child r*pists and cover up m*rder cases\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. or we can elect someone who kicks in doors and cleans up the mess.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her years in Congress, Mace has made strong impressions\u2014often strongly negative ones\u2014across a wide array of constituencies. Though she began her career in Congress by opposing the January 6th riot, Mace quickly changed course, becoming an enthusiastic adherent of the MAGA<\/em> movement. She has long perturbed liberals and Democrats with her ardent support for Donald Trump and her provocative, frequently vulgar rhetoric. To many feminists, she has forfeited any chance at credibility with a virulent anti-trans campaign, which she has waged since 2024, often targeting Sarah McBride, of Delaware, Congress\u2019s sole trans representative. The G.O.P. has soured on Mace, too, angered by her agitation around the Epstein investigation and willingness to make a public fuss over alleged misconduct by Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n

It may be because Mace has alienated so many potential allies and made enemies out of so many onetime friends that the gravity of what she says happened to her does not seem to have penetrated the public consciousness. She says that she, and other women, were systematically sexually assaulted by a group of men who deliberately made them too intoxicated to consent, and then documented their attacks in photos and videos for their own amusement. She says that this went on for years. She says that this happened to her while she was a member of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since her speech, Mace has taken up a crusade against sexual abuse, particularly in Congress. Together with other far-right Republican women\u2014notably Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, and Anna Paulina Luna, of Florida\u2014she has endeavored to publicly challenge what she says is a culture of rampant sexual misconduct in Washington. She took on a prominent role in response to the Epstein controversy, publicly breaking with President Trump in calling for the release of Justice Department materials related to the convicted sex offender; her unwillingness to change her vote, despite pressure from the White House, was part of what led Trump to reverse course and endorse the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, 2025. Earlier this year, she again proved willing to antagonize the Administration when she joined Democrats in forcing an investigation into the Justice Department\u2019s handling of the Epstein affair, voting to subpoena then Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n

Most problematically for the House Republican leadership, Mace has been relentless in criticizing her male colleagues in Congress who have been accused of sexual abuse\u2014including her fellow-Republicans. For months, she was a loud and persistent antagonist to Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican who admitted to an extramarital affair with a staffer who later died, reportedly by self-immolation. Mace called on Gonzales to resign months before he finally did, in April, after Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, was also ousted amid his own sexual-misconduct allegations, which he denies. (Their near-simultaneous resignations meant that the Republicans\u2019 narrow House majority went unchanged.)<\/p>\n

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Later that month, Mace introduced a resolution to expel Cory Mills, a Republican from Florida, after petitioning to remove his committee assignments last year. Mills, who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, was arrested in connection with a domestic-violence incident in February, 2025, and was reported to the police for threatening another woman with revenge porn later that year. (He denies both accusations.) Most recently, Mace has taken the helm of an effort to make public the payouts dispensed by members of Congress and their staff over sexual-harassment claims. In press interviews this May, Mace revealed that taxpayers have footed the bill for congressional sexual-harassment settlements to the tune of three hundred thousand dollars between 2007 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Mace has long been among the conservative Republican women most willing to adopt the rhetoric of female empowerment. Maybe this is because she began her career in the early aughts, an era when feminism had gone mainstream\u2014and when the politics of male grievance that animated so much of Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 coalition was still comparatively fringe. The daughter of a retired Army general, she became, in 1999, the first female cadet to graduate from the Citadel, South Carolina\u2019s military college. Her 2001 memoir about her time there, \u201cIn the Company of Men,\u201d describes how she earned begrudging respect from her fellow-cadets and discomfited her commanding officers when they found bras and a pink alarm clock in her dorm during mandatory bunk inspections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During her time in the South Carolina state legislature, Mace successfully campaigned to add rape and incest exceptions to the state\u2019s 2019 six-week abortion ban; ahead of the vote on the bill, she spoke publicly for the first time about being raped by a classmate when she was sixteen. It was the aftermath of that teen-age sexual assault that caused her to pursue a degree from the Citadel. Succeeding in that maximally masculine institution became, she told the Charleston Post<\/em> and<\/em> Courier<\/em> in 2019, \u201csomething she had to prove to herself she could do.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s something you can\u2019t believe happened, and you ask yourself, \u2018How did I let this happen to me?\u2019 It\u2019s very difficult to overcome,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But Mace\u2019s feminism has always been selective. She is an opponent of most abortion rights and has endorsed the doctrine of fetal personhood. And she has been tactically evasive when pressed about the many, many allegations of sexual abuse committed by the President, including those of E.\u00a0Jean Carroll, which were affirmed by a jury. \u201cQuite frankly, E.\u00a0Jean Carroll\u2019s comments when she did get the judgment, joking about what she was going to buy, it doesn\u2019t\u2014it makes it harder for women to come forward when they make a mockery out of rape, when they joke about it. It\u2019s not O.K.,\u201d Mace said in a contentious interview with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos, in March, 2024.<\/p>\n

Her stance on gay and trans rights has evolved in especially unsettling ways. When Mace arrived in Washington, she distinguished herself with her backing of gay and trans rights, which were quickly becoming a culture-war flash point. \u201cI strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,\u201d she told the Washington Examiner<\/em> in 2021. \u201cNo one should be discriminated against.\u201d In 2022, after voting for a bill to insure permanent federal recognition for same-sex marriages, Mace, who was divorced twice before she met Bryant, tweeted, \u201cIf gay couples want to be as happily or miserably married as straight couples, more power to them. Trust me, I\u2019ve tried it more than once.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this position was short-lived. After McBride\u2019s election, Mace introduced a resolution that would have banned transgender women from using restrooms in the Capitol; when a foster youth activist named James McIntyre shook her hand and spoke on behalf of the rights of trans minors at a photo op a few weeks later, she accused him of \u201cphysically accosting\u201d her, and he spent the night in jail. (Charges against McIntyre were quickly dropped.) Amid the firestorm, Mace embarked on a media tour to publicize her opposition to trans rights, and took the opportunity to make frequent use of the word \u201ctranny,\u201d a move that seemed calculated to shock. \u201cTranny. Yeah, tranny, tranny, tranny,\u201d Mace said to a twenty-year-old trans University of South Carolina student who asked her to stop using the slur in April, 2025.<\/p>\n

Many Republicans have adopted transphobia as a culture-war issue. Mace is unusual in that her insistence that she does so for the sake of women rights seems more plausibly sincere. \u201cI, as a woman, am standing up to protect other women from men being in our private spaces,\u201d she said on Fox News of the bathroom-ban resolution. Now gay people, too, whose rights she once voted to protect, have become targets of her hate. \u201cAdam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,\u201d she wrote on X, last October. After Trump endorsed Evette in the South Carolina gubernatorial campaign on May 29th, Mace posted a photograph of her opponent superimposed over pride flags.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One way to read Mace\u2019s congressional trajectory is that she made a bet in 2021 that the Republican Party was ready to break with Donald Trump. When it became clear that it wasn\u2019t, she pivoted. The Party became pro-Trump again, and so she became pro-Trump again. The Party became anti-trans, so she became anti-trans.<\/p>\n

It is possible that Mace\u2019s recent feminist positions, too, are the result of a political calculation, an attempt to strategically weaponize pro-woman rhetoric for her own ends. Yet it is difficult, when one takes stock of her behavior over the past few years, to see a woman coolly appraising her own interests. It does not excuse Mace\u2019s conduct to say that her behavior in recent months seems less like that of someone strategically pursuing her own ambitions than like someone unravelling under the weight of what appears to be great pain.<\/p>\n

Mace\u2019s brand of female empowerment has always been about demonstrating her personal equality with men\u2014her ability to meet their standards at the Citadel, to beat them in Republican primaries, to march beside them in the halls of Congress. Even her transphobia can feel, at times, like an imitation of male behavior: in trans women, she found a kind of woman toward whom she could direct the contemptuous misogyny of a right-wing man. In her speech on the House floor alleging physical assault by Bryant, she described leaving their shared home, frightened of further violence. \u201cI fled my home and went into hiding,\u201d she said. Maybe she was surprised: as a member of Congress, she turned out to still be a woman.<\/p>\n

One critique of #MeToo, when it reached its zenith nearly a decade ago, was that the movement relied on emotionalism at the expense of reason. The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo\u2019s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain. To some on the left, Mace, who routinely invokes her history of sexual violence as she covers for Trump and argues against the rights of trans people, might seem like a grim confirmation of this fear.<\/p>\n

But so far Mace\u2019s declarations have been more successful at drawing skepticism and scrutiny to herself\u2014and to her own erratic behavior\u2014than they have been in generating movement toward her professed goals. \u201cLooking at the floor speech and what went on there, it\u2019s very clear that that was the breaking point for me,\u201d one former staffer told New York<\/em>, of their decision to quit. \u201cThat\u2019s when it became apparent to me that this is broken.\u201d Mace\u2019s angry colleagues have launched an Ethics Committee inquiry of their own against her; Mills has introduced his own resolution to expel her from Congress. If Mace\u2019s adoption of feminism is cynical, then hers is a kind of cynicism that seems very na\u00efve: to take on the role of the public survivor for the sake of personal gain, you have to believe that survivors usually get what they want.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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