No, you don’t need to give Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene the strange-new-respect treatment because, during the recent government shutdown fight, the Georgia Republican sided with Democrats supporting an extension of Obamacare subsidies. Or even if she seems to have forced President Donald Trump on Sunday night to surrender on a legislative effort to require the Justice Department to unseal all of its documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
In the shutdown standoff, Greene emphasized that she thinks “health insurance and all insurance is a scam,” and she’s still the same loon known for ranting about secret Jewish space lasers and “false flag” mass shootings and, last month, claiming, “all our country does is fund foreign countries and foreign wars, and never does anything to help the American people!”
Similarly, don’t assume anything good about Greene just because she triggered, and seemingly won, the online brawl with Trump over the Epstein files. But the fracas does merit close attention, because Greene is demonstrating that a high-profile member of the MAGA movement can vehemently disagree with the president and apparently emerge unscathed. If she pulls this off, she’ll show that Trump may no longer be the kingmaker in Republican primaries, or in the MAGA crusade.
Oh, look, it’s a road sign saying, “Lame Duck-ville, next three exits.”
In recent days, Greene angered the White House not only by siding with Democrats on Obamacare subsidies, but also by telling NBC News that Trump has abandoned his “America First” priorities and, perhaps most consequentially, by pushing for the Epstein documents release.
Apparently, that was the last straw for the president, who raged on Truth Social last week that he was withdrawing his support and endorsement of Greene.
“I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.” (It is revealing that Greene’s wanting to release documents about Epstein, not her Obamacare defense, is what prompted Trump to conclude she is “far left.”)
You might have thought that once Trump denounced her, other Georgia Republicans would line up to take a whack at Greene. But Jim Tully, chairman for the GOP in her district, offered the local party’s “full and unwavering support” on X, lauding her “uncompromising dedication to the principles that define both our district and our nation.”
And then, Sunday night, in a sudden reversal, Trump declared on Truth Social, that House Republicans “should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.” He insisted he wanted the files released to get Republicans “back on point” on the economy.
Tucked into the northwest corner of the state, Georgia’s 14th District is its most heavily Republican one, scoring an R+19 in the Cook Partisan Voting Index. If there’s any dissatisfaction with Greene among Republicans there, it has been well-hidden. Greene was unopposed in the 2024 primary. In the 2022 GOP primary, she won with 69.5 percent of the vote, despite facing five challengers.
Of course, as your financial adviser should be telling you, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Perhaps Trump will find a strong challenger to Greene; another Trump acolyte, Laura Loomer, posted on X, “Should I buy a house in Rome, Georgia? Do you think President Trump would endorse me?”
In 2020, Trump attacked Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, because Kemp didn’t buy into the president’s absurd stolen-election conspiracy theories. Trump even recruited former senator David Perdue to run against Kemp in the 2022 primary. But Kemp, who ignored the president’s broadsides and emphasized his record of accomplishments, whomped Purdue, 73 percent to 21 percent.
The difference between then and now is that Kemp was and is a traditional conservative, whose philosophy predates the MAGA movement. Greene, on the other hand, is MAGA through and through. And so far, she’s demonstrating you can disagree with Trump and emerge relatively unscathed.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News last week, Trump warned, “Don’t forget, MAGA was my idea. MAGA was nobody else’s idea. I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else.” Greene put that claim to the test and forced Trump to reverse his position.
Greene may be a lunatic, as the president says, but she’s a lunatic who’s looking down the road and positioning herself for the day Donald Trump no longer enjoys unfettered power over Republican politi
No, you don’t need to give Georgia GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene the strange-new-respect treatment because, during the recent government shutdown fight, she sided with Democrats supporting an extension of Obamacare subsidies. Greene emphasizes that she thinks “health insurance and all insurance is a scam,” and she’s still the same loon known for ranting about secret Jewish space lasers and “false flag” mass shootings and, last month, claiming, “all our country does is fund foreign countries and foreign wars, and never does anything to help the American people!”
Similarly, don’t assume anything good about Greene just because an online brawl has erupted between her and Donald Trump. But the fracas does merit close attention, because Greene is demonstrating that a high-profile member of the MAGA movement can vehemently disagree with the president and, at least so far, emerge unscathed. If she pulls this off, she’ll show that Trump may no longer be the kingmaker in Republican primaries, or in the MAGA crusade.
Oh, look, it’s a road sign saying, “Lame Duck-ville, next three exits.”
In recent days, Greene angered the White House not only by siding with Democrats on Obamacare subsidies, but also by telling NBC News that Trump has abandoned his “America First” priorities and, perhaps most consequentially, by supporting a legislative effort to require the Justice Department to unseal all of its documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
Apparently that was the last straw for the president, who raged on Truth Social that he was withdrawing his support and endorsement of Greene.
“I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.” (It is revealing that Greene’s wanting to release documents about Epstein, not her Obamacare defense, is what prompted Trump to conclude she is “far left.”)
You might have thought that once Trump denounced her, other Georgia Republicans would line up to take a whack at Greene. But Jim Tully, chairman for the GOP in her district, offered the local party’s “full and unwavering support” on X, lauding her “uncompromising dedication to the principles that define both our district and our nation.”
Tucked into the northwest corner of the state, Georgia’s 14th District is its most heavily Republican one, scoring an R+19 in the Cook Partisan Voting Index. If there’s any dissatisfaction with Greene among Republicans there, it has been well-hidden. Greene was unopposed in the 2024 primary. In the 2022 GOP primary, she won with 69.5 percent of the vote, despite facing five challengers.
Of course, as your financial adviser should be telling you, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Perhaps Trump will find a strong challenger to Greene; another Trump acolyte, Laura Loomer, posted on X, “Should I buy a house in Rome, Georgia? Do you think President Trump would endorse me?”
In 2020, Trump attacked Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, because Kemp didn’t buy into the president’s absurd stolen-election conspiracy theories. Trump even recruited former senator David Perdue to run against Kemp in the 2022 primary. But Kemp, who ignored the president’s broadsides and emphasized his record of accomplishments, whomped Purdue, 73 percent to 21 percent.
The difference between then and now that Kemp was and is a traditional conservative, whose philosophy predates the MAGA movement. Greene, on the other hand, is MAGA through and through. And so far, she’s demonstrating you can disagree with Trump and emerge relatively unscathed.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News last week, Trump warned, “Don’t forget, MAGA was my idea. MAGA was nobody else’s idea. I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else.” Greene is going to put that claim to the test.
Greene may be a lunatic, as the president says, but she’s a lunatic who’s looking down the road and positioning herself for the day Donald Trump no longer enjoys unfettered power over Republican politics.
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