Marjorie Taylor Greene is the Liz Cheney du jour
All it takes is to become Trump’s enemy, and the MSM will give you the sympathetic star treatment.
From Ace, a post entitled: “As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, the NYT Offers Her a Puff-Piece with an Attempted Glamour Shot.” In the Times article, Greene gives them the Trump-dissing quotes that earn her new respect from the Gray Lady: a lot about Trump and Epstein, plus the standard charge (one that usually comes from the left) that Trump will never leave office.
Is a Greene gig at MSNOW on the horizon?
She adds, just to top it all off:
I’ve seen a bunch of America Last accounts attacking Tucker so I’m making it clear that I’m proudly friends with Tucker Carlson.
He is a man of sincere faith, loves his family, and our country.
America First is winning.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
My opinion is that Greene, Carlson, and their allies on the “woke right” are trying to take over the GOP and replace MAGA with themselves – much like what the Democratic Socialists have done quite successfully to the Democrats.
I don’t think it’s remotely fair to compare MTG and Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney, like her father, has/had a well-developed and sophisticated worldview that was based on a preference for a muscular foreign policy and intervention overseas. I don’t think it is fair at all to say that either daughter or father is/was a full spectrum conservative. It is probably more accurate to say that they were generally right-of-center and, therefore, made their peace with the other parts of the pre-Trump conservative coalition, but that neocon foreign policy was their primary concern. Trump stood for the antithesis of the Cheney foreign policy worldview. (And I believe he was right, BTW.) If foreign policy is your primary concern, and your preferred side of the issue switches parties, it’s not at all unusual to stop supporting your previous party, and maybe make peace with the other party’s position on social issues, economic issues, and the like.
MTG, on the other hand, has been a completely unserious rube since she appeared on the scene. She has also trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories since the beginning. Perhaps both of those qualities are best illustrated by her social media posts about Rothschild space lasers purportedly causing California wild fires. (That sure didn’t affect her standing in Trumpland either.)
Also, Cheney bailed on the GOP after the party itself changed in significant ways on her most important issues. MTG changed because. . . . ? The rumor is that Trump wouldn’t endorse her for a Georgia Senate seat. What else changed? Trump isn’t on board with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories? That didn’t bother her in 2018. Trump is supporting Israel? Trump has been one of the biggest supporters of Israel ever to hold the White House, and has been so since before MTG’s political career began. Trump isn’t disclosing the purported Epstein files to her liking? OK. Whatever. I continue to believe that the Epstein files are nothing but noise.
As I mentioned above, I actually believe that Trump was right about the interventionist wing of the old GOP. But Cheney didn’t, and leaving the party or trying to hold Trump’s nonsense against him was a natural reaction when Trump held positions and took actions contrary to her most deeply held beliefs. MTG is a completely different story.
I think the “Liz Cheney du jour” quip is aimed at Greene’s new status of “strange new respect” at the NYT rather than a direct comparison of the two women. The NYT is glad to promote anyone who claims to be anti-Trump.
I doubt, despite the hype, that Greene, Carlson, and the others will actually be able to take over the Republican Party, as the leftists have done to the Democrats.
The first thing she complained about was death threats. Notwithstanding all the other stuff I think she feared she was the next political target so she took the blue pill.
Marginal Traitor Greed. How long before Tucker turns on MTG? Do anti-semites do that?
Cannon fodder
Marjorie ran a successful family construction business, so she knows how things get done. Her campaign against Trump is sour grapes, the way I see it, because he refused to back her as a Senatorial candidate, because he thinks she can’t win. She’s ambitious, and probably wants to get Senator-rich – but ‘want’ doesn’t mean ‘can’. And Trump has a keen sense of what his brand is for.
As for the Woke-GOP, I see it as a desire to split MAGA so that it loses the mid-terms and the RINO Republicans can return happily to the way things have been done in the past, making money and losing races at the margins. Congress, led by Republican leadership, hasn’t really accomplished a god-blessed thing in the past year except yammer how great they are, how they’re winning the culture wars. They haven’t put forward bills at any respectable rate as far as I can tell, or passed any milestone, socially-impactful legislation.
Something about a tax cut might have happened last year, oh, and they didn’t fold on the Schumer shut down. So, no, nothing of consequence happened (sarc).
Yes Maggie, we have the space lasers, so watch your ass.
Liz Cheney, like her father, has/had a well-developed and sophisticated worldview
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What is ‘well-developed’ in her family (on the part of her father and husband) is a talent for leveraging political connections into highly lucrative private-sector careers. Her conduct in her last two years in Congress was driven not by anything ‘well-developed’ or ‘sophisticated’, just a willingness to use any sort of unscrupulous means to injure people she considers a threat to her tribe. Her tribe is Acela corridor rent-seekers, not ordinary people. It’s amazing Wyoming voters ever accepted her. If she ever lived there f/t year round, it was in 1977-78 and that’s it. At the time she tried to turf-out Mike Enzi, she’d spent 3/4 of her life in greater Washington. Unlike 98% of the people who live there, she and her husband are very much a part of ‘political Washington’.
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MTG, on the other hand, has been a completely unserious rube
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The completely unserious rube was married for 25 years, has three children, and with her husband operated legitimate private businesses to earn a living. She was 45 years old before she ran for supralocal public office.
A far more “sophisticated” analysis of Empty-Gee! might well be to place her in the category of—self-perceived—“Woman Scorned”(TM).
This might(?) answer the question as to why someone with some—not all, certainly—positive political instincts, as well as more than a modicum of combative courage, can go so entirely off the rails.
File under: MTG
unboundunraveled…Somewhat tangential to the post but on the topic of the defense of Liz Cheney, there’s this admission from Jack Smith
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/jack-smith-admits-star-january-6-witness-relied-on-hearsay/
Hutchinson “was a second or even thirdhand witness,” Smith said, adding that other witnesses gave “different perspectives” than her.
What does this have to do with Liz Cheney? Because in addition to accepting the highly improper appointment to the Democrat’s J6 show trial (because it was made without consent of the GOP House leadership), it appears that Cheney coached Hutchinson on what testimony to give
https://cha.house.gov/2024/10/new-texts-reveal-liz-cheney-communicated-with-cassidy-hutchinson-about-her-select-committee-testimony-without-hutchinson-s-attorney-s-knowledge-despite-cheney-knowing-it-was-unethical