Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been bucking the Republican party line with increasing frequency—standing with Democrats to demand that the Justice Department release the Epstein files, decrying the spike in health-care premiums, and holding love-ins with the hosts of The View. Many people are trying to get their heads around the fact that the “Jewish space lasers” lady is now a leading voice of heterodoxy and, at least intermittently, common sense.
The prevailing theory for this bout of independence is that Greene is angry at President Donald Trump for foiling her plans to run for Senate. “Here’s some tea for you,” explained Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a longtime Greene antagonist, on social media this week: “The White House and Trumpland shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for Senate, and she has been on a revenge tour ever since.” The journalist Tara Palmeri suggested in her newsletter, “As much as I’d like to believe Greene’s recent critiques are born of sudden enlightenment—that it was just fearing that her adult sons will have to pay higher Obamacare premiums that changed her mind on health care or that she’s suddenly opposed to mass deportations—the simpler, messier truth is often personal.”
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