Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat? 

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent the last week gnawing on the hand that feeds her, showing that no one in American politics is worse at reading the tea leaves.  

Taylor-Greene entered Congress in 2021 wearing a face mask that read “Trump Won.” She was so fervently a supporter of January 6 pardons that Georgians invoked an “insurrectionist disqualification clause” to try to remove her from Congress. But now that MAGA is riding high on a wave of world peace and prosperity, Taylor Greene has changed her tune and, though she says she’s still conservative, is sounding more like an unholy fusion of Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi.  

Over the weekend, MTG appeared on comedian Tim Dillon’s podcast, claiming that she is still “MAGA through and through.” There’s only one drawback: The Epstein Files. A passionate former PizzaGater, MTG said to Dillon: 

“Everyone that voted for Trump-Vance, everyone was like, release the Epstein Files! This is not even an argument. It’s not even debatable. It’s not being a traitor to the president to sign my name on a Thomas Massie discharge petition to release the Epstein Files. No, no, no. I am staying true to what we’ve always said. There needs to be transparency.” 

Fair enough. That’s nothing you wouldn’t hear from, say Rand Paul about Trump’s treatment of the Epstein Files, where every day is another wonderful secret. But then there’s Taylor Greene’s invocation of the Gaza “genocide,” the first Congressional Republican to say such a thing, sounding like your supposedly tolerant progressive Facebook friend and not helping the rumors that she’s actually an anti-Semite. On Dillon’s show, she ripped into her fellow Republicans for not having a plan to “fix” Obamacare and calling for them to extend ACA subsidies. Then there was this, about illegal immigration:  

“As a conservative, and as a business owner in the construction industry, and as a realist, I can say, we need to do something about labor and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that. And I’m going to get pushback on that. But I’m just living in reality.”  

What reality, though, exactly? MTG sounds exactly like liberals saying “who will pick our vegetables?” These aren’t questions you’d expect to be hearing from someone touted as a MAGA standard-bearer going forward. In general, you get the sense that Taylor Greene has lost interest in the Republican project.  

“My district knows I ran for Congress trashing Republicans,” Taylor Greene said to The Washington Post yesterday. “They voted for me because they agreed with that. My district’s not surprised.” 

The Post’s story also featured MTG going off on House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose ascendency she fervently opposed, saying that he’s a sexist who refuses to promote women to positions of authority. “Whereas President Trump has a very strong, dominant style – he’s not weak at all – a lot of the men here in the House are weak,” she said. “There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something and actually want to achieve…They’re always intimidated by stronger Republican women because we mean it and we will do it and we will make them look bad.” 

Not all Republican women. The attorney general, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the White House Chief of Staff, and Congresswomen Nancy Mace, Elise Stefanik, and Anna Paulina Luna, among others, would probably like to have a word with MTG, who’s “our next President,” Tim Dillon said on his podcast on Saturday. “Sorry, J.D. Vance.”  

Unless MTG runs as a Democrat, it seems unlikely that the Vice-President is quaking in his Crocs. However, it also seems unlikely that the Democrats will embrace someone who publicly called for the execution of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Who will find a political home for Marjorie Taylor Greene, now the tardiest of libs?