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After the rise of ‘the Squad’ on the Left, there were attempts by some on the Right to build their own ‘Squad’ in Congress. Those personalities who were influencers first and legislators third or never have flamed out.
A number of them self-destructed badly. So much so that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bizarre recent months of going on The View, apologizing to CNN, opposing deportations of illegal aliens, lying that there was genocide in Gaza (and did I mention going on The View) have ended in her resigning from Congress.
And supposedly planning to run for president.
Time is claiming that, “the Georgia lawmaker has privately told allies that she has considered running for president in 2028, according to two people who have spoken with her directly about the prospect and three others familiar with her thinking.”
I don’t put great faith in Time’s reporting (or any outlet’s reporting these days) but this feels like a deliberate leak and a trial balloon. If so it’s delusional to the nth degree, but do you know what makes it less crazy?
MTG has been compared to Liz Cheney and these same trial balloons were floated around her.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was increasingly open on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential campaign after soundly losing a Republican primary to a challenger backed by former President Donald Trump.
She declined to say if she would run for president but conceded it’s “something that I’m thinking about.”
There’s about as much public enthusiasm for Greene’s presidential run as there was for Cheney’s.
After Rep. Jamie Raskin invited her into the party (and then backtracked), there’s more of a career path for her as a Democrat or a spoiler.
But the bigger issue is that members of Congress are supposed to do actual work, not play influencer. Social media influencers are unstable exist to ‘build their brand’. AOC was the inspiration for the ‘Squad’ and the counter-Squad and she predictably split from the Squad and the DSA to build her brand up for a senate or presidential run.
And AOC is probably the healthiest of the generation of social media influencer members of Congress because she hasn’t shaved her head, been convicted of a crime, cheated on her husband, also cheated on her husband and then married her strategist, and well… I could go on.
The point being that everyone complains that Congress does nothing. There’s truth to that. But electing wannabe social media influencers and narcissists isn’t the answer.
Well we know Trump isn’t running.
Wackos in Congress.
I can’t wait to see which nutcase MTG picks to be her VP. Or imagine a future debate where MTG debates AOC, and the debate is hosted by SNL, and afterwards they have a mud wrestling contest – now that would be great entertainment.
She won’t survive the primaries.
GREENFIELD for PRESIDENT.
You don’t have an “open thread” on FPM, so I’ll just use this column:
Where’s the commentary about Trumps meeting with the Islamist in Marxist clothing in the Oval Office?
FYI, your right about wack-job MTG.
Trump schmoozing Mamdani is about as revolting as it gets.
I thought Trump romancing Bill Gates could never be surpassed on the Disgusto-meter…………I was wrong.
We’d be about as well off electing Trump’s favorite horse to congress as some of these degenerates. Instead, we are getting a line of budding Caligulas.
One of the most important things Trump can do is to vet decent future leaders of MAGA. Without taking any momentum from the President himself, we really need to have more capable MAGA leaders than a person could easily name, the kind of people who know how to work as a team, despite personal differences and ambitions.
The whackier they are I suppose….
Why do losers think they will do better at a higher level?
Who resigns from political office to run for another one.
I admit I do not have the ego for politics. So egomaniacs run for politics.
The Peter Principle still applies.
Ding-a-ling MTG isn’t doing well as a representative, who is making her believe she could be POTUS and compete on the world stage?
We’d be right back where we were with the Biden insanity.
MTG was elected in 2020, was new and supported Trump 45, went to the lockups where they were unconstitutionally holding the J6 political prisoners, I suppose just for show now.
Went off the rails to the View because deep down MTG Parasitic Mind is closer to the satanic pekkerhead honiac woke commie demoncraps!
Lordy Me where do they come from anyway? maybe from Under a Rock or squatting on a toadstool
I initially thought your take on MTG as “Never Trump” was a load of crap……..Mr. Greenfield.
But I’m re-evaluating my viewpoint on that.
Nick Fuentes in his latest podcast expressed a viewpoint very similar to yours on MTG.
Interesting times.
Like Cheney, MTG puts the nails in her political coffin. Let them run. It’s a ploy to take votes from the GOP – to punish them, and let her new Democrat comrades do better in the election.
MTG added over $20M to her porttfolio during her 5 years in DC and resigned days after conditions to obtain her congressional pension were met. She’s a made woman, and I think she was making nice with the left to get on their good side on the way out.
That way she could enjoy her ill-gotten gains in peace and get a better write up in history books, which are written by the left. I doubt she’ll do more politically beyond guest appearances and monetized social media. The support just isn’t there for more.
JD Vance is the heir and will have all the tech bros on his side. Will he complete the MAGA takeover and America First, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or will it be the reign of the technocracy dystopian nightmare? One thing is certain it will not be the insider trader maven from Georgia.
We learned from Jiminy Cricket how to spell a their name with just four letters F-O-O-L
Where are all MTG fan boys? For a while I tolerated her, because even though she’s a nut she was our nut. Then like an unhinged auntie at a Thanksgiving dinner she started ranting about Jews and UFO’s, and…a bridge too far.
She has fanboys? She’s from my state, is better than warnock or ossoff (that’s not saying much), and dished rhetoric back to dems in her own juvenile way. She made her bank, made nice with the left on her way out, and will enjoy her golden parachute.
Better than nothing, but not by much.
I’m still waiting for all the MTG fanboys to comment on this situation. I hear crickets.
I hear crickets on alternatives. The democrat party is running the ‘opposition’ in Georgia.