The short political career of Marjorie Taylor Greene has flamed out, as she has announced that she is resigning from the House of Representatives, effective January 5, 2026. Her seat will be filled by a special election:
My message to Georgia’s 14th district and America.
Thank you. pic.twitter.com/tSoHCeAjn1— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025
Greene typified one unfortunate element of the MAGA movement. Inexperienced and erratic, without a solid grounding in conservative principles, Greene was a self-proclaimed “America First” partisan with no history as a leader in her community. She eventually went off the rails, culminating in a lovefest with the harridans of The View in which she bizarrely blamed Speaker Mike Johnson for the government shutdown, and argued for extending Obamacare subsidies.
Like some other conservatives, Greene railed against the “uniparty” of establishment Democrats and Republicans. In her farewell statement, she wrote:
No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.
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During the longest shutdown in our nation’s history, I raged against my own Speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass a plan to save American healthcare and protect Americans from outrageous overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies.
The idea that there is little or no difference between Republicans and Democrats, so that it matters little which party is in power, is a pernicious fantasy that weakens the conservative movement. Liberals are not so foolish: they know very well that there are deep divisions between the parties, and that it matters greatly which party enjoys Congressional majorities. Hence their unswerving loyalty to the Democratic Party. Conservatives should learn from their example.
After the View interview, President Trump apparently had seen enough. He withdrew his endorsement from Greene and suggested that he would support a primary challenger against her. That apparently was enough to drive her from office. MTG, RIP.
UPDATE: One more thing. The Democrats are almost certain to recapture the House in 2026, and might even take the Senate. One important reason is that a lot of MAGA voters won’t turn out because Trump is not on the ballot, and they have little attachment to the Republican Party. Trump, of course, knows better. But many MAGA partisans have fallen for the lie that Republicans and Democrats are a “Uniparty,” so why bother to vote in an off-year election? I am afraid we will see the consequences of this misguided view in 2026, as we did in 2022.
