Since publicly attacking Republican leadership over the government shutdown and publicly advocating for extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has become the latest Republican darling of the mainstream media. She has criticized her party and earned the ire of Trump, and the mainstream press very much believes (at least, when it comes to Trump) that "the enemy of my enemy will appear on my show."
On Friday night, Greene announced she is resigning from Congress. Multiple people have pointed out she seems to have chosen her last day strategically—she is resigning on January 5, 2026, just days after her pension vests. But this is about more than pensions.
Greene is a congresswoman who has eyes for bigger prizes. She is bored with Congress, and she admits it in her letter without outright saying it. She talks about all the things she wanted to change, but she wrote in her public letter that "the results are always the same." She wanted to change things, and she realized she couldn't as a congresswoman. She couldn't exert her will or position herself into a position of power and influence.
What MTG Really Wants
That would be different if she could be a U.S. Senator or a Governor. But she can't win those races. When multiple people, including the president, told her she couldn't win, she threw a tantrum. She has attacked the president's policies and railed against her own party.
The mainstream media has noticed, and now she is earning that "strange, new respect" we see so often when Republicans no longer support their party. She gets favorable coverage—something no media outlet on the left has ever offered her because of her strange and, at times, offensive stances—and she gets invited onto The View, where the gals gush over her for being so brave.
There are some who will look at Greene as brave for standing up for her principles, but when you take a closer look... what principles is she standing up for? She's pro-Obamacare. She was against a shutdown that put the Democrats on the defensive and induced a civil war among their ranks. She has attacked Trump and Trump's policies and now accuses Trump of plotting to primary her. There aren't any principles involved there. This is a mix of personal grievance and a realignment of her political platform to match what she thinks a post-Trump America will look like.
Not in Danger, Just Bored
In truth, she probably wasn't at risk of losing her congressional seat regardless of Trump's involvement. If she was in trouble, it's not because of Trump but because the call is coming from inside the house: Her constituent services are nonexistent, she is a lightning rod (and not in a good way), and she has routinely been divisive instead of working in any way to get her goals accomplished.
But, despite all that, she was still likely to keep her seat. She is quitting because she isn't getting what she wanted from the job, and she wants to go somewhere else. In the meantime, she'll be free to attack the GOP and Trump and keep earning those positive media hits and that strange, new respect from people who loathed her.
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