Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears to be changing her public approach to politics, leading to speculation that the famously far-right member of Congress may be trying to pull off a “remake” or “rebranding.” And while her new style might not be terribly convincing, it is getting attention. She recently has been picking fights with fellow far-right allies to make her case.
I’m not sure how the deep pockets are going to take this brinksmanship with the debt ceiling. Fucking the economy is usually not a great idea. As Lady Day said, “When the money’s gone and all your spending ends, they won’t 'round any more, no, no, no.”
That’d be an epic face turn if she can pull it off. It shows sound political judgment if she recognizes that Boebert and Gaetz are crazy enough that she can play off them like this.
I am enjoying the thought of Stefanik being supplanted by Greene. It may not happen on a literal level (Stefanik won’t lose her conference chair) but it’s clearly happened on a practical level.
Having elbowed her way to the middle, Greene now becomes the elder statesman of measured behavior. From Robert Draper’s NYT article I sense that Greene, unlike Boebert, is savvy enough to know that merely being a sty in the American eye will not be enough to sustain her as the voice of the working class, a role she sees herself playing. Hence, the move to sobriety. Turning infamy into fame and then into power is the essence of Trumpian alchemy and the GOP’s preferred workaround to class immobility.
Nothing shrinks chip on the shoulder syndrome like a few committee assignments.