John Lal (9:02)
All right, first up, let's start with what the right is saying. The right is mixed on Greene's departure, though many say Trump is right to disavow her. Some argue Greene was a good representative, but resigning is the right choice. Others say the left is hypocritically embracing Greene now that it is politically convenient. In the Washington Examiner, Zachary Ferrier wrote, trump is right. GOP should dump MTG Green has spent the past few months attacking the GOP speaker of the House on liberal media platforms, trying to help congressional Democrats keep Obamacare afloat and obsessing over Israel. In response to Trump calling her a traitor, Greene implied that Trump was a traitor serving Israel's interests, Feria said. None of this is surprising. Greene has been a wacky conspiracy theorist her entire political career. Republicans should have nipped her career in the bud when she was first elected. Despite pushing Q in on conspiracy theories and 911 truther ism, Greene claimed that the 2018 California wildfires were caused by space lasers controlled by Rothschild Investment Group businesses. Greene contributes nothing of value to the Republican Party. Her fundraising can be replaced by any other GOP firebrand. She's not some legislative giant. She doesn't move votes, as evidenced by the poll showing that she would lose in embarrassing fashion if she ran for Senate against Democratic incumbent John Ossoff, ferriero wrote. Before, she was an obnoxious provocateur who Democrats tried to tie to normal Republicans as a political anchor. Now she is no different than any other Democratic attack dog, attacking Trump and the gop, protecting Obamacare and ranting about Israel. In PJ Media, Steven Cruiser said Greene is keeping it weird until the end. Some of Greene's farewell messages seemed odd to me. There was a big pity, poor me vibe to it. She even likened herself to a battered wife at one point. Greene has never shied away from melodrama, cruiser said. This is a little bit reminiscent of Jeff Flake's departure from the Senate several years ago. He saw the writing on the wall and bugged out very early because he knew he wasn't going to survive the primaries. That was way back before Trump had any kingmaking juice at all. I've rather enjoyed most of Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional career. She's a firebrand who didn't avoid confrontation and she was fiercely loyal to Trump for a long time. These last few months have gotten out of control. If she had decided to remain in office and was able to win again, I fear that she would have continued to go the never Trump route. That would have been more of a branding ploy than anything having to do with deep convictions, cruiser said. It's going to be quieter in the House of Representatives without MTG roaming around. The Trump haters will be feasting on this news for a while. Expect a lot of mainstream media drivel about MAGA being shattered. In the Spectator, Douglas Murray asked if Greene will become an anti Trump resistance hero. It is always interesting to see who the American left claims are the leaders of the American right. There was a time during President Trump's first term when Steve Bannon fit the role. Around the same time there was a less savory figure called Richard Spencer. The self professed white nationalist was portrayed as being close to the center of power on the right, murray said. The latest person to enjoy a similar transmogrification is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greenery. Until recently you would have been hard pushed to find a kind word said on the American left about the blonde MAGA congresswoman. Now she's suddenly acceptable. She's on all the left wing talk shows. CNN has interviewed mtg, as she is sometimes known, sympathetically, and listened with certainty as she decried the use of toxic rhetoric in politics. The fact that toxic was practically MTG's only brand until yesterday would ordinarily lead to an outburst of skepticism on the US Left, murray wrote. But MTG has become acceptable because of one thing and one thing only, which is that the American left sees that she might have just become useful in their war to bring down President Trump. Alright, that is it for what the right is saying. Which brings us to what the left is saying. Many on the left suggest Trump won the power struggle with Green, but see the saga as a warning for the rest of his term. Some say Green exposed one of Trump's key political weaknesses. Others argue against mainstream acceptance of Green. In cnn, Stephen Collinson said Greene's exit shows Trump still rules the gop, but it's a warning he shouldn't ignore. Whether Greene's future lies in a conservative media role or in a political campaign. She took positions on Social Security, healthcare, immigration, foreign policy and the national debt that sou very much like a manifesto for a back to basics shift for the MAGA movement when Trump has left the scene, collinson wrote. Greene's fallout with Trump has created so much interest because it's a fracture between two of MAGA's top personalities, but also because it seems to hint at deeper rifts within the movement itself. And since she was once an enthusiastic player in the toxic politics pioneered by Trump, Greene's turn may hint at a wider fatigue for the drama and bile that Trump whips up every day. It was never realistic that a lone member of Congress, even one as astute in cultivating publicity and controversy as Greene, would prevail in a political test of wills with the president, let alone one who transformed the GOP in his image, creating his own populist movement, and enjoys an exceptional bond with the grassroots of his party, collinson said. But Greene argues that the president has departed from the values that took him into office and that validate his appeal. That's a threat to Trump's authority at a difficult political moment and at a time when the power of second term presidents are often starts to ebb. In the New Republic, Greg Sargent argued, Marjorie Taylor Greene just wrecked the cult of Trump. Trump depicted Greene as a traitor for supporting the discharge petition compelling a House vote on the release of the files, sargent wrote. What Trump understands better than anyone alive is that it's the perception of his mastery over fellow Republicans that matters above all to the success of his project. Trump's eruption at Greene was a last ditch effort to warn other Republicans that if they dare join her, they'd face his wrath. What Trump feared most was the spectacle of Republicans not doing his express bidding. What is surely most galling to Trump in the video is Greene's straightforward declaration that Trump was unable to control the course of events, sargent said. Obviously, Trump's grip on the Republican Party is quite formidable, but that grip is plainly loosening on many fronts. Trump has failed to bully Indiana Republicans into joining his corrupt gerrymandering scheme more than once a handful of GOP senators have joined Democrats to vote to undo some of his tariffs. What we're learning now above all is that Trump appears to wield absolute mastery over the GOP until he doesn't and can no longer sustain that illusion in Ms. Now, Liz Lenz wrote, you don't have to forgive Marjorie Taylor Greene. A politician apologizing is rarer than Haley's Comet. But that hasn't been the only part of the Green Redemption tour. She has become a symbol of the break within the Republican Party. She's disagreed with the president's policies on Israel, calling the war in Gaza genocide. She criticized the tariffs and is attacking some of Trump's more egregious ideas, len said. But Greene is no great hero. She's no martyr sacrificing her well being for the country. And it's time to take her down from the wooden cross she made for herself. Recall that Greene rose to prominence in 2019 by attacking the victims of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Greene screamed at former President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address. She spread anti Semitic and Islamophobic conspiracies. She expressed support for executing Democratic members of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi. She pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, Lenz wrote. Each post, each hateful rant, each violent word, gleefully typed, shared and liked and raged against is the foundation of Greene's entire career. It's the tsunami of sewage that swept her into Congress and and Trump into the White House. All right, let's head over to Isaac for his take.
