[DoodleBob]

I think this Marcotte person is genuinely demented.

I disagree. She is a troll. She knows darn well that such utterances will trigger some conservatives, and thus she seems to thrive on this claptrap. Indeed, there are three articles on Ms Marcotte's utterances on FR just today.

She's a sort of low-budget leftist Milo without the brains. Ignore her and she'll wither and die.

[grey_whiskers]

Someone elsewhere on the web called Amanda and her ilk "Clickbait Serfs."

I think it describes her well.