Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Future of MAGA

Tensions between President Donald Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have been escalating for some time. But now there has been a permanent split. Trump not only withdrew his endorsement of MTG but promised his “Complete and Unyielding Support” to the right person who runs against her in the Republican primary election. Then MTG announced her resignation from the House of Representatives. Her oral statement is available here and written statement here.

Marjorie Taylor Greene did not betray Trump until Trump betrayed his nationalist and populist principles, to which she remains fiercely loyal.

The whole incident revealed the full ugliness of Trump’s egomania: demanding personal loyalty, not loyalty to the American people. Sadly, a lot of people are happy to take that deal: Trump’s vast cult of personality, which eagerly joined Trump in denouncing MTG. Such cults do not arise spontaneously. They are actively cultivated by people with narcissistic personality disorders.

This is not the first time Trump has tried to destroy the career of Republicans who crossed him. Trump’s betrayal of Senator Jeff Sessions is one of the lowest points of his first term. Trump also is working to destroy Thomas Massie, and he probably will do the same to Rand Paul.

All these victims have two things in common. First, they have better principles than the average Republican including Trump. (Which is not to say that I always agree with them.) Second, because they are more principled than Trump, they sometimes say “no” to him. So they have to go.

Meanwhile, Trump courts the likes of Zohran Mamdani, works actively with Republican swamp creatures like Marco Rubio and Lindsay Graham, endorses palpable morons like Herschel Walker, and staffs his administration with incompetent buffoons like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.

What do all these people have in common? They suck up to Trump. They flatter his narcissism. And that counts more than principle or competence, even loyalty to the American people, whose welfare is the supreme law of the land.

Even the best people around Trump, like Vance and Hegseth, spend entirely too much time buttering up their boss. But that’s what he expects from them.

Trump deserves many thanks for the good things he has done.  But if he keeps strengthening his ideological enemies while surrounding himself with cultish people selected for sycophancy rather than competence, strong principles, and strong character, his good works will be reversed not continued when he is gone. Making American Great Again will have been sacrificed to Making Trump Feel Good about Himself. Something great and lasting will have been sacrificed to something petty and fleeting.

Trump cultists claim that MTG turned on Trump because she was angry about Trump’s internal polling showing that she would lose if she tried to run for senate against the Democrat incumbent Jon Ossoff. This narrative conveniently ignores substantial policy differences.

Greene criticized the H-1B visa program and introduced a bill to end it entirely, explaining “If we want the next generation to have the American Dream, we must stop replacing them and start investing in them.” In contrast, Trump claimed that we need foreigners to train American workers to make chips. This is ridiculous because there are plenty of retired (or perhaps fired/laid off) Americans with that expertise. They haven’t all died off since the 1990s. But big tech companies would have to be willing to pay them a fair wage to come back. As one meme put it, in Trump’s America, you no longer train your replacement, your replacement trains you.

Zionism is another huge problem. Greene takes America First seriously and recognizes that an America First administration cannot follow Israel First policies. This summer, MTG became the first—and so far only—Republican in Congress to call Israel’s campaign in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on supporting Israel, Netanyahu, and their genocidal war of terror. But there’s no way to avoid the simple truth: there’s no room for an Israel First wing in an America First political movement.

Another huge problem is Trump’s shameful coverup of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, which enmesh vast swathes of the Western political establishment. Along with Thomas Massie, Greene has been a leading voice calling for accountability for Epstein and his collaborators. In a rambling Truth Social post, Trump dismissed MTG’s demands for accountability as complaining, but not after rambling off his accomplishments as if they were titles.

MTG retorted that she had helped Trump for six years and won her seat without his endorsement. In response to Trump calling her a traitor for refusing to take her name off of the petition to fully discharge the Epstein files, she said:

Let me tell you what a traitor is, a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is someone who serves the United States of America, and Americans, like the women standing behind me . . .

Those women were victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.

Due to months of immense online and real-life pressure, the House of Representatives and Senate finally passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act ordering a full release of the Epstein files, which Trump grudgingly signed. MTG explained it was only possible because the American people “put more pressure on every single elected politician in this city than has ever been put on them.”

Of course, passing a bill means nothing unless there is accountability. MTG explained this well:

The DOJ is protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers. The time for that to stop is now. . . . How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men—rich men—in handcuffs, being perp-walked to jail. Until then, this is still a cover-up.

These words are worth cheering.

Her call for real, concrete results with the Epstein files echoes the sentiments in her resignation statement: “. . . Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman” and “Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts.” She explained how this was true for inflation, funding foreign adventures, replacing workers with illegal and legal migrants, high debt, and both parents having to work just to survive. It reads like a populist manifesto.

People have been criticizing MTG for resigning two days after she receives her federal pension. But this criticism is in bad faith. Her pension will only probably be about $8,700 a year due to the short length of her political career. Besides, she earned it. But Trump apologists have become utterly shameless.

Zionists and Trump fanatics are touting MTG’s resignation as a victory. But they are short-sighted. Her resignation is a harbinger of their doom.

Donald Trump chases fame and flattery. He is not a man of principle. He flips-flops so often on fundamentals that it frankly feels like we are being governed by whoever Trump talked to last. This is extremely frustrating to more principled nationalists and populists, which is to say: practically all of us.

We are constantly saying, “That’s it! We’re through” and breaking up with Trump. Make no mistake: every time Trump flip-flops, he loses some people permanently. But for most people, such personal decisions seldom have any permanent, real-world consequences, thus it is easy to get sucked back in to actively or passively supporting Trump again.

This is why MTG’s resignation is so important. She’s not just a random malcontent muttering online. She’s a widely admired figure who stood by Trump and MAGA through thick and thin. If somebody as loyal as MTG quits her job in disgust over the Epstein coverup, Israel First foreign policy, and a general pattern of arrogance and betrayal, ask yourself how many of Trump’s principled America First voters will be willing to follow her in breaking with Trump, this time for good? How many of them will stay away from the polls in the 2026 midterms?

Republican voter turnout for 2025’s Virginia gubernatorial elections dropped by 7.7% from 55.8% in 2021 to 48.1%. That drop was even more pronounced in Virginia’s rural GOP strongholds. This is despite the fact that Jay Jones, the Democrat candidate for Attorney General, is a murderous anti-white, anti-Republican fanatic.

Multiple polls show that the economy is now the top issue for voters. Trump’s vaunted “golden age” seems like tinfoil to people who can’t even afford burritos at Chipotle. People get less and less for their work while Trump is focused on foreign policy, especially Israel. That naturally makes voters feel like neglected children.

The Epstein files are an additional slap in the face. YouGov polling from July found that the vast majority of US voters think the government is covering up evidence about Epstein and should release all documents on the case. Perhaps most shocking is that the number of people with no confidence that those connected to Epstein would be investigated rose from 25% in January to 45%. That number rose from 29% to 39% for Republicans. Recent polling confirms that the Epstein issue isn’t going away anytime soon.

It only takes a small slump at the polls in a few close districts to destroy the Republican majority in Congress. Then Trump is looking at two more years of impeachment drama and government paralysis. If the Republicans don’t learn from the midterms, they will likely lose in 2028 as well. And, if the Left regains power, they will do everything they can to end American democracy, because they never want to hand power back to the Right again.

At that point, the people who backed Trump to stop socialism, save Western civilization—even save the world—will lose everything. Many will end up in prison, like Jair Bolsonaro. Others will have to flee the country.

I’d prefer that Marjorie Taylor Greene stay in Congress and fight. But her resignation might do more good if it awakens people to the damage Trump is doing. There’s too much at stake to leave the presidency in the hands of an increasingly bumbling and erratic egomaniac.

Frankly, the best option may be to replace Trump with Vance as quickly as possible, before the damage becomes irreversible. Make a meme of it:

Dump Trump. Give Vance a Chance.

https://counter-currents.com/2025/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-the-future-of-maga