She’s got money, support from many disillusioned MAGAs, and she knows how to strike many of the same chords Trump once did. From George Samuelson at strategic-culture.su:
Given that she has three more years to polish her image, MTG could just have a realistic chance at becoming the first female U.S. president, with or without the support of Donald Trump.
After a brutal fallout with U.S. President Donald Trump, Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has confided to allies that she is considering running for president in 2028, TIME reported. But can she win without Trump’s blessing?
A tough, hard-right maverick who forged a reputation as one of Trump’s most strident defenders, Marjorie Taylor Greene, also known by her initials MTG, has become an unexpected detractor of the President in recent months. She has challenged Trump’s stance on the economy, slammed his support of Ukraine and Israel, which clashes with the ‘America first’ mantra, and, most recently, demanded that he release the Epstein files over his initial objections.
And just as things were starting to get very hot in the political kitchen, Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective January 5, in a 10-minute video post that went viral on YouTube.
“Nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman,” she began in her passionate farewell speech. “Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations… The average American family can no longer survive on a single breadwinner’s income, as both parents have to work in order to simply survive.”
Towards the end of the delivery, Greene described her fallout with Trump as “absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
All things considered, those do not sound like the words of a “battered wife” who is prepared to just casually walk away from America’s myriad domestic problems. Although Greene has not officially announced her intentions to run for the highest office in the land, her resignation speech sounded far more like the first pitstop of a presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, Trump, who has little patience for people who oppose his worldview, cheered her departure from the U.S. political scene, calling it “great news for the country.” Asked by ABC News whether Greene had informed him beforehand of her decision, he responded: “Nah, it doesn’t matter… but I think it’s great. I think she should be happy.”
The rift between Trump and Greene began to reveal itself in June as the Trump administration was moving to attack Iran in the belief it was working on a nuclear bomb. Greene aligned herself with both “America First” isolationists and far-left progressives who opposed the march towards war with the Islamic State. “Americans don’t want to bomb Iran because the secular government of Israel says that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb any day now,” she said in a tweet.
Honesty and not a traitor would be a first.
The first woman preezy a former republican is delicious irony.