Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Now One of the Sanest Republicans

Because Congressional Republicans are just a cult masquerading as a group of alleged humans with agency, most fall in line on the side of being servile to Trumpian power in this shutdown, who wants to further immiserate his own voters. MTG thinks this is a bad idea, and she clearly does not want to run for reelection next year amidst millions of voters upset at the party in power over their healthcare premiums doubling. We are so far through the looking glass, it’s hard to adequately express how deranged the Republican Party has become, so in this instance, I am thankful for the woman who thinks I control secret space lasers that can start wildfires in California. I have run out of words to describe the depravity of the modern GOP, but MTG has now lent her unhinged lack of credibility to this subject to give us another example. Republicans are so detached from reality they are making her look reasonable in this shutdown fight! What the fuck is going on with these people!

My best theory over this MTG-Johnson split is that this simply highlights the divide in the GOP between cynical hacks like Mike Johnson who will sell their own family out for a scintilla of additional power, and true believers in the cult like MTG. At no point in Speaker Johnson’s cynical worldview does the rubber have to meet the road, as you can just keep lying about whatever the present state of things are in perpetuity, and eventually you detach yourself from reality altogether, which is where the Stephen Miller-led GOP finds itself right now alongside a president whose brain is clearly leaking out his ears.

On the other hand, if you sincerely believe in Jewish space lasers and an elite pedophile cabal devouring baby blood, well, at a certain point you want something to be done about it. You must come back to earth to some degree to address the problems you see in the world, even if you are still shrouded in your cocoon of right-wing media lies. Johnson doesn’t want to address any problems, he just wants to enable this elite smash and grab operation where Trump represents billionaire interests burning America to ash so they can loot it. MTG just wants to stop the Jewish space lasers. Even though Johnson and MTG believe many of the same things, they live in different worlds, and we are seeing how that produces diverging outcomes right now.

“I am personally against the government shutdown. I really want to be doing appropriations,” said the conspiracy theorist, sounding like an eminently normal Congressperson. “[Senate Republicans] can open the government any time they want. They can use the nuclear option in the Senate. They can reopen the government. This is a bunch of drama and political theater, so I’m willing to call that out, too,” continued reasonable sounding Rep. Jewish space lasers.

Every day I wake up and think the world cannot get any stranger than it already is, and every day proves me wrong. The Republican Party has become so unhinged that even Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks they’re full of shit. These are wild times in America, and the only certainty we have anymore is that all of this demonstrates how every day this year, the Republican Party has been less popular than it was yesterday, even with Republicans.