Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns From Congress

I wish that I could say that I am surprised by this.

In the 2020 election, one of the key reasons why I didn’t vote for Donald Trump is because of how he had destroyed the career of Jeff Sessions. He also later destroyed the career of Rep. Mo Brooks. Meanwhile, he endorsed establishment Republicans like “Big Luther” Strange and Katie Britt in Alabama. He created so much chaos in Alabama politics that he got Doug Jones elected to the Senate. By winning an upset victory in Alabama, Jones narrowed the Republican Senate majority and killed Trump’s legislative agenda in his first term by the spring of 2018. Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterms.

In 2021, I hoped the party would move on from Trump, but losing an election didn’t break the grip of Trump’s cult of personality over Republican primary voters. It only sent him into exile at Mar-a-Lago. He was still constitutionally eligible to run again. He ran in 2024 and easily won every state except Vermont. Even though I knew from experience that he was a petulant narcissist who might do something like this again, I supported him anyway in 2024 to bring the Trump era to a close and to avoid the nightmare scenario of a senile 85 year old Trump making a fourth run for the presidency in 2028.

When Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, he will leave behind a cohort of worthless Republicans in Congress like Randy Fine, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson and Byron Donalds who flattered his ego, but who won’t inspire the coalition that he built to turnout and vote for them. Trump himself will never appear on the ballot again to lift the GOP. MAGA was a cult of personality, not an ideological movement. It was always about Trump. He had the opportunity over five election cycles to build a bench in Congress and leave behind a legacy that would survive his presidency. He blew it.

It is sad that this happened, but it was somewhat predictable and it illustrates why the Right desperately needs new leadership that isn’t based on a vacuous cult of personality.

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