Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Playing the Long Game

Any praise—even if it is equivocal—of Marjorie Taylor Greene requires a lengthy disclaimer, so let's get this out of the way. She's a bigot, a political extremist, and a conspiracy theorist. Even by the standards of Republicans who have entered politics after the rise of Donald Trump, the Georgia congresswoman is out there. She's not like other politicians. She's not like other people, for that matter.

But Greene is, for once in her life, on to something. She sees what her fellow Republicans either don't see or aren't willing to acknowledge: Trump's second administration has already failed and will doom its party in upcoming elections. And she wants to get credit for being the first prominent elected Republican to say this out loud.