Hide Your Bunnies — Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Now MAGA’s Crazy Ex
Sooner or later, I will have to get around to updating my pop culture references. For the moment, I’ll just have to hope that the majority of the readers here in Briefing Land got the headline’s allusion to an almost 40-year-old movie.
We’re going to take a quick break today from any news regarding Minneapolis, and not only because I am sick of typing “Minneapolis” every day. It’s a pity that civil unrest doesn’t break out in places like Nome or Fargo. That would be a lot easier on my carpal tunnels, if not on the fine people of Nome or Fargo.
Today’s “M” word comes from within our own ranks. Marjorie Taylor Greene was, at one time, a solid Republican before she decided to bail on Congress and strike out for some of that filthy Never Trump lucre out in the private sector. She took a few weeks off after her premature departure from the House of Representatives at the beginning of last month but is now ready to make us regret that we ever liked her.
This is from my colleague Jeff Charles over at Townhall:
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the Trump administration and the MAGA movement, claiming it was “all a lie.”
During a recent interview with podcaster Kim Iversen, Greene lashed out at President Donald Trump, accusing him of failing to address the economic woes Americans are facing.
“MAGA is, I think, people are realizing, it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people,” Greene said.
Well, if it was a lie (spoiler: it wasn’t/isn’t), Greene was a big part of creating and spreading it. She was a staunch supporter of President Trump’s as he was fighting to return to office, and then after he was back in office for his second term. Things took a weird turn last year, and Notorious MTG decided that she wasn’t getting enough attention from the president. Name-calling ensued, and it soon became apparent that Trump would not be endorsing her for reelection.
Internecine squabbles are nothing unusual in the Republican Party; we’re not a single-brained organism like the Democrats, after all. Greene’s foot-stomping might have been less irritating and more understandable had she not played a very whiny victim card when she announced her resignation. When I wrote about it last November, I said that Greene had a “Michelle Obama moment” when she listed her grievances as she informed the public that she was heading out the door. It was that bad.
I don’t think Republicans should be supporting President Trump right now because I have some sort of cultish devotion to him — I didn’t even get my first MAGA hat until the summer of 2024. No, any American proclaiming to be a conservative and/or Republican but who isn’t on board with Trump’s agenda is aiding and abetting the Democrats.
