Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who regularly uses anti-trans slurs and calls herself a “proud transphobe,” is getting called “totally befuddled” and accused of “having a sharp mental decline” by many on her side of the aisle.

Mace was a fairly middle-of-the-road Republican until last year, when she started acting out more and more in public. First, she began her scorched-earth campaign against trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), which included writing hundreds of posts on social media attacking her in a matter of days. Mace also gave speeches in the House, accusing her ex-fiance of sex crimes (he’s suing) and making claims of people threatening and physically attacking her. She recently capped it all off by allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at an airport because security didn’t meet her at her car.

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Her fellow Republicans are calling her out for her erratic behavior. Even some members of her own staff are worried about her mental health.

CNN’s Jake Tapper reported that a former senior staffer in her office said, “It went from kind of funny to devastatingly sad in terms of her not getting help and displaying this behavior on a national stage.”

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Tapper said that an anonymous House Republican said that her colleagues are “totally befuddled” and that her actions are “a big question within the conference.”

“The general feeling is that there is something unwell about her,” the House Republican said. “She’s really going through a crisis. It’s sad. Clearly, there is something going on with her.”

Mace’s former consultant, Wesley Donehue, who has traded barbs with Mace in the past, told Tapper: “Over the past two to three years, Nancy Mace has been having a sharp mental decline. I’m no doctor, but that’s what I believe.”

“She went from being a very reasonable person to being someone who cannot control her emotions,” he continued.

“The House Republican told me that there isn’t any real infrastructure for the House Republican leadership to deal with this type of situation,” Tapper said.

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