Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is in the midst of a Democratic turn after her political ambitions have fallen flat, proving that President Donald Trump was right not to back her for higher office in the first place.
In May, Greene said she would not run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, after Trump reportedly commissioned a poll from his top pollster that showed her losing to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) by 18 points. Trump was also unenthusiastic about her possible campaign for governor, resulting in her announcing at the end of July that she wouldn’t be running in that race, either.
With both of her paths to higher office now closed, Greene is lashing out at Republicans using Democratic talking points. She has embraced the “Republicans are sexist” talking point laundered by Democrats, saying that she and “other women in our party” are “really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women.” Greene also said that the Republican Party (which, right now, is Trump’s Republican Party) “has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans” and that “I don’t want anything to do with” the course that the party is on (again, under Trump’s direction).
To top it off, she has also adopted the talking points of Hamas terrorists, declaring that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza, putting her in the same company as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Greene also joined Tlaib in June as the only representatives to oppose a resolution condemning antisemitic attacks, such as the Boulder firebombing attack committed by an Egyptian illegal immigrant.
Greene was obviously unfit to be a congressional representative and a representative of the GOP back when she was first elected. Greene was already an electoral liability in any Georgia race outside her safe, deep-red House district. Combine that with her jumping on Democratic talking point after Democratic/Hamas talking point over the past couple of months, and it is clear that Trump and Republicans were correct not to back her in a competitive Senate or governor race, and that Republicans would have been better off without Greene in the fold in the first place.