MAGA lawmaker’s startling moves offer a 'glimpse' of a 'post-Trump' GOP

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Although Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) considers herself a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and the America First agenda, the MAGA congresswoman has recently been bucking her party on a range of issues — from the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Jeffrey Epstein files to federal subsidies for Obamacare.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark, journalist Will Sommer observes that Greene's actions are drawing criticism from some Trump loyalists but argues that she may be offering a "glimpse" of a "post-Trump" GOP.

"At the start of this year," Sommer explains, "it would have been hard to name a more stalwart Donald Trump supporter than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. But the firebrand Georgia Republican with previously unquestionable MAGA credentials and a knack for spouting off zany shit has been breaking with the movement an awful lot over the past week. Greene has offered stinging criticisms of the Trump Administration's handling of deportations, the Epstein files, and tariffs."

Sommer continues, "Most crucially, she slammed Republicans' negotiations on the government shutdown, saying her party needs to compromise with Democrats to prevent Obamacare subsidies from expiring…. Months before this latest turn, Greene had also grown critical of the Republican Party for its lockstep support for Israel. But this round of heterodoxies has felt bigger, and different."

The Bulwark journalist notes that Townhall's Matt Vespa said of Greene, "What the hell are you doing, Marjorie?" And X user Catturd described her as a "sellout fraud."

Right-wing media figure Will Chamberlain tweeted that "MTG is sounding like a wealthy white Napa liberal." The most vociferous attacks, however, have been coming from MAGA conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who tweeted, "She wants to destroy MAGA because she isn't the leader of MAGA."

"It's hard to know what's going on inside Greene's head — we're talking, after all, about a one-time hardcore QAnon believer who posited that forest fires are caused by space lasers controlled by the Rothschilds," Sommer argues. "But Greene's efforts to distance herself from unpopular Trump initiatives does give us a glimpse into what the post-Trump Republican Party could look like."

Will Sommer's full article for The Bulwark is available at this link.

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