Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out one-time ally Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his “Make America Great Again” movement.
“MAGA is, I think people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she told YouTube host Kim Iversen. “It was a big lie for the people.”
The Trump administration, she said, is all about serving “big, big donors,” including foreign countries and large corporations, with many funneling cash to Trump’s PACs and pet projects such as his White House ballroom to win favor.
Yup, I’d never consider Greene an ally. But, the enemy of my enemy is a useful tool against my enemy. The more conservative voices calling out Trump’s corruption and self-serving, the better. The MAGA base is never going to listen to anyone who is politically to the left of Atilla the Hun, but someone like Greene may be able to peel a few of them off into the “disaffected, non-voters” camp.
the people who need to internalize what she’s saying… they don’t listen to women
Give Marjorie credit for at least figuring it out. Although a very tiny, tiny proportion of MAGAts ever see consequences, women seem to be overrepresented:
Marjorie’s experience recently getting shut out of running for Senate or Governor by the MAGA establishment is at the top of her mind, of course.
Elsie Stefanik drew the short stick too, she was nominated to be UN Ambassador, and a bunch of other Republicans in the House were also nominated for positions in the administration. All those other men got their promotions, but when it was time to affirm Elsie’s they told her the House majority was now too thin. Then she launched her own campaign for NY governor, only to find that once a male Republican announced his campaign, all her support evaporated.
And with all the problems recently with ICE, from Trump to Stephen Miller and all down the chain, I bet Kristi Noem will be the first to face any consequences. She might be offered up as a sacrifice to keep the rest of it going.
She knew the whole time. But she was in the inside of the grift. Now she got pushed out and is mad about it.
Don’t think she didn’t know it was a grift the entire time. She got in, got hers and is now getting out so she can do the whole ‘news consultant’ gig. The only thing I’ll give her credit for is that she might just open a couple of eyes… but I don’t think she’s doing that out of a sense of service to her country, but instead it is just part of her personal rebranding.
MTG is smart*, amoral, and self interested. Of course she’d be one of the first rats off the ship.
They all know it’s a grift. She wanted the grift. What she figured out is that she will never really be part of the boys’ club.
I hate this all or nothing monolith mindset. No, not all of the MAGAts are the same. There are some who will see her saying this and leave. Your mindset is one of failure, where there’s nothing to be done (besides civil war, which won’t be as nice as you think). We need to spread that it’s even too bad for her, and she was one of the most ardent supporters. Let them know all the “good” things they wanted were bullshit. We can get some of them to leave.
Atilla the Hun is actually too left for them, he actually listened to the patriarch of Rome and didn’t kill him. Also had the good sense to die after fucking shit up, wine makes a damned good blood thinner and he fucked himself up on it before getting a bloody nose.
Apparently Trump loves pounding aspirin, so we have that going for us.
Marjorie is more progressive than most of the democrats at this point.
This is insane.
She is against war, against Israel, for healthcare. Against geo-engineering. Wants justice on epstein.
And thinks Jewish space lasers are a liberal conspiracy to attack christians from space.