Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Playing Three-Dimensional Chess?

"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been bucking the Republican party line with increasing frequency-standing with Democrats to demand that the Justice Department release the Epstein files, decrying the spike in health-care premiums, and holding love-ins with the hosts of The View. Many people are trying to get their heads around the fact that the " Jewish space lasers " lady is now a leading voice of heterodoxy and, at least intermittently, common sense."

"The prevailing theory for this bout of independence is that Greene is angry at President Donald Trump for foiling her plans to run for Senate. "Here's some tea for you," explained Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a longtime Greene antagonist, on social media this week: "The White House and Trumpland shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal ambitions to run for Senate, and she has been on a revenge tour ever since.""

"Having initially judged Greene to be a wildly uninformed conspiracy theorist, I was similarly predisposed to dismiss her evolution as a kind of revenge for being slighted. But having listened closely to her commentary of late, I've concluded that she is up to something more interesting and strategic. Greene seems to have recognized that the president has broken faith with his own followers."

Marjorie Taylor Greene has increasingly broken with Republican orthodoxy by aligning with Democrats on issues such as demanding release of Jeffrey Epstein files, criticizing rising health-care premiums, and appearing congenially on The View. Observers attribute her departures either to personal grievance after being blocked from a Senate run or to sudden rethinking of policy positions. An alternative interpretation sees a deliberate strategic recalibration: Greene appears to recognize that Donald Trump has lost credibility with parts of the Republican base and is positioning herself for a future political path built on heterodoxy, occasional moderation, and independence from party leadership.

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