Marjorie Taylor Greene is the real MAGA deal

     "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
          William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697

"I refuse to be a battered wife."
          Marjorie Taylor Greene, last Friday

Trump embracing MTG. She was his biggest fan. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been betrayed, and she is furious. Betrayed by Donald Trump. Betrayed by the House GOP. Betrayed by the fakers and grifters who hijacked the MAGA movement.

She is angry because she is sincere. She is a populist, a woman of the people, and a true believer.

She was dangerous to Trump. He needed to exile her. 

MTG's speech announcing her resignation from Congress on January 5 is an extraordinary political document. It lays out the MAGA world view, and does it far better and more consistently than does Trump. He has a fragile coalition to lead. The MAGA worldview is pragmatically useful and it folds a constituency into the Trump movement. Trump cannot break with those supporters, nor can he embrace the full MAGA suite of beliefs. After all, the Trump-shaped GOP includes the donors and lobbyists in the "Chamber of Commerce Republican" set, the pro-Israel Zionists, big banks, big pharma, big tech, defense hawks, and Republicans willing to defend Trump's interest in the Epstein matter. Trump needs to compromise and shade his language and behavior to keep his fragile coalition together. MTG does not need to compromise. She gets to be 100 percent herself, and as such she is the tip of the MAGA spear.

Here is MTG's spoken announcement, a 10 minute video.

https://youtu.be/ubU-J-p_8Gc

Here is a written transcript: Click.

She speaks of betrayal. She expects Democrats to be vile, godless, communist, abortion-loving, trans-enabling, legal and illegal immigrant-enabling, banker-loving, foreign-aid-supporting, public-broadcasting-funding globalists. In short, swamp dwellers. She is no ally of Democrats, but they didn't betray her. They were being their evil selves. The betrayal comes from Republicans. She thought they were different. But she learned that they, too, are part of the swamp. 

My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First, and I have fought against Democrats' damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women. . . . 

If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well. 

There is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess game being played. 

When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it.

The Trump-MTG alliance floundered over two issues that came to a head this month. One, Republicans are allowing subsidies for health insurance exchanges to lapse. That will price her constituents out of health insurance. Two, Republicans were blocking release of the Epstein files. MTG identified with the young women, not the powerful men who preyed on them. 

MAGA-thinking is a majority inside the GOP. That is why Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the GOP establishment needed to call her a kook without disagreeing with her.  She wasn't wrong. She was disloyal. A political movement needs a spokesperson and leader. She was emerging as the better, clearer voice for MAGA, and she was loyal to MAGA, not Trump. That made her dangerous to Trump. 

MTG is not wrong in complaining about the excessive power of elites. She is not wrong about the swamp. She isn't wrong about the military industrial complex. Some of her complaints sound like Bernie Sanders'. Right populism and left populism overlap. She would not be a third-party voice. She would be the voice of a reformed non-swampy GOP. That is a problem for Trump's GOP. He made peace with the swamp and is neck-deep in it.

She is free now to start a political movement that is the logical successor to Trump. She might fade away. She reports that her life has been threatened. But I expect she will stay in the arena. It is exhilarating to be the center of attention, and she appears to have all the narcissism that animates Trump. She also has principles and an agenda.

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