Republican 'resistance' to Trump is emerging — and infuriating an unhinged loyalist
MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is known for being a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and his America First agenda. Yet recently, the Georgia firebrand has been frustrating Trump's allies by bucking her party on a range of issues — from Israel/Gaza policy to subsidies for the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare.
In an article published on October 14, Axios' Alex Isenstadt cites MTG as an example of the "small pockets of resistance" to Trump's policies that are emerging in the GOP—much to the umbrage of far-right MAGA influencer and self-described "proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer.
"As President Trump basks in his success in the Middle East," Isenstadt reports, "hairline fractures within his Republican base are cropping up on a smattering of domestic issues. Why it matters: Republicans have been in near-lockstep with Trump in his second term. So the small pockets of resistance — on the National Guard deployments, free speech, the federal shutdown and more — signal concerns within the GOP as the 2026 midterms come into sight."
In addition to Greene, Isenstadt notes, the "pockets of resistance" include Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, MAGA businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
Stitt, Cox, Ramaswamy and Cruz are far from Never Trumpers, but Isenstadt observes that their willingness to disagree with Trump at all is a departure.
While Stitt criticized Trump for using federalized National Guard troops in U.S. cities—which he considers a violation of "states' rights" — Cox disagreed with Trump's cancelation of a solar power project. And both Ramaswamy and Cruz took issue with the way Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr tried to bully ABC/Disney into not airing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's show.
But Loomer, who has been feuding with Greene, is furious with Republicans for disagreeing with Trump even on rare occasions.
In an October 10 rant on X, formerly Twitter, Loomer wrote, "After Trump, the GOP is going to struggle to lead because as we have seen, President Trump is the glue that keeps the party together. So what’s happening? Well, ingrate Republicans who attached themselves to Trump think they don’t need him anymore or they are retaliating because he didn’t endorse them. These people will work to undermine Trump in the last 3.5 years he's in office and they will join forces with the radical left to smear MAGA while they give a pass to the Red-Green alliance so that our country becomes more radical and more violent."
Loomer continued, "They will continue to use Israel and then they will openly embrace Islam as a wedge issue to break up the evangelical and Christian voting blocks that have strongly supported the GOP. This is why you have seen a coalition of 'conservatives' embrace Islamists and leftists with rhetoric that is more isolationist and openly hostile to anyone who speaks out about Islamic terror."
Read Alex Isenstadt's full article for Axios at this link.
