The former Trump loyalist has attracted new fans, perhaps because of her unhinged criticism of Israel
Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken with Donald Trump and Republicans on several issues Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP
23 October 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia, is having a moment, but not with who you might expect. When Greene entered Congress in 2021, she was treated as a pariah – a conspiracy theorist and borderline cultist whom you might cross the road to avoid.
Greene’s first days in Washington, DC were marked by revelations that she had been a QAnon follower, had reportedly liked a social media comment stating that the removal of Nancy Pelosi from her post would be quicker with “a bullet to the head”, and had indicated support for the execution of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. For a moment, it even appeared that she might be expelled from her position.
No longer. And notably for this long-time Maga loyalist, it’s not her fellow Republicans who appear to have warmed most to Greene. It’s her Democratic opponents.
In the opening months of Trump’s second presidency, Greene has broken with Donald Trump and Republicans on everything from Israel and Ukraine, to Obamacare subsidies, the Epstein files, and the president’s various entanglements with the cryptocurrency industry. Naturally, those who once sought to chase her out of public life are suddenly enthralled with the self-professed “Christian nationalist”.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) remarked upon Greene’s “surprisingly enlightened few weeks”. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) identified her as being part of a cohort of “decent, honest Republicans” who have said, “‘you know what, I was elected by my constituents, that’s who I am beholden to, not the president or the United States’”. CNN presenter Wolf Blitzer gushed over the “courageous politician” and “loving mother” after a friendly interview. And far-Left commentator Mehdi Hasan marvelled that he had, in the space of a day, retweeted posts from Greene, Candace Owens, and Matt Gaetz.
“What’s happening to the world?” Hasan wondered aloud.
It’s not especially difficult to answer Hasan’s question, or to join the dots between those for whom Hasan and his fellow progressives have developed a strange new respect. Greene, Owens and Gaetz have been at the forefront of a newly-empowered faction of the Right that, if not explicitly anti-Semitic, certainly appears to be singularly obsessed with Israel or Jews.
Owens has inveighed against “political Jews”, as well as the “small ring” of Jewish people in Hollywood and DC up to something “quite sinister”. Perhaps most outrageously, she seemed to imply that the assassination of Charlie Kirk had something to do with Israel. From his new perch at One America News Network, Gaetz has appeared to devote disproportionate airtime to smearing the Jewish state.
And as for Greene, a populariser of the suggestion that Rothschild-linked businesses used a space laser to start the 2018 California wildfires, she may have lurched Left-ward on policy, but she’s stayed true to her roots on at least one topic. In just the last few months, she has appeared to warn about Jews taking over Turning Point USA in the wake of Kirk’s death, as well as relentlessly promoting the lie that Israel has been prosecuting a genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Greene is still the same hateful nutter she’s always been. But Democrats have already made their peace with the virulently anti-Israel wing of their own party. Why not Israel-obsessive Republicans, too?
The Democrats are more than happy to ally with one of Congress’s most execrable figures if it means putting a few unexpected points against Trump on the board. The temptation to capitalise on the break between the president and one of his hitherto most loyal lieutenants is just too great, so the “courageous,” and “loving” loon’s ramblings are suddenly seen as “enlightened,” and “honest”.
Washington: where friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and almost every profession of principle is shown, in the fullness of time, to be insincere.
Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite
“Greene is still the same hateful nutter she’s always been. But Democrats have already made their peace with the virulently anti-Israel wing of their own party. Why not Israel-obsessive Republicans, too?”
Yep. The Dems are truly up shit creek without a paddle.
Embracing a skanky succubus who would fit in well on Vladimir Solovyov’s shitshow is just pitiful.
Incredibly, Kamala is planning to run again. Somehow I don’t see that as helping them much. If at all.
Barmy Bernie “has identified her as being part of a cohort of “decent, honest Republicans” who have said, “‘you know what, I was elected by my constituents, that’s who I am beholden to, not the president or the United States’”.
You could not make it up!
Pointing out that she’s being honest in this case about how disastrous the Republican stance is for her constituents doesn’t mean acceptance of any of her crazy ideas.
“Washington: where friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and almost every profession of principle is shown, in the fullness of time, to be insincere.”
This is politics that can be found in every other country in the world.
And, just because some of her thoughts are positive ones and embraced by the Democrats doesn’t mean that the entire person is accepted. It’s no sin to acknowledge her being right with some of her statements about the maga cultists.