Marjorie Taylor Greene’s not wrong in anything she said in her statement. This really isn’t about Trump. Our government is sick beyond repair. Millions of Americans are not good people; millions more are ignorant and wrong. It’s a sad and increasingly irredeemable situation. It will just have to play out and hit bottom. Given what she says, I would leave Congress too. She sounds relieved and liberated.
In a lengthy statement posted to X, Greene cited her growing disillusionment with Washington politics, blasting what she called a corrupt “Political Industrial Complex” that she said uses Americans as “pawns in an endless game of division.”
“Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both political parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more,” Greene wrote. “And the results are always the same — nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.”
Greene said she had “never fit in” in Washington and was leaving Congress to “fight for the people of this country in a different way.”
“I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” Greene wrote. “My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First, and I have fought against Democrat’s damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women.”
Greene criticized her own party’s leadership for what she called a “sidelined” majority more focused on “safe campaign re-election mode” than governing.
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Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Mamdani on his past remarks describing Trump as a “fascist,” with the president jumping in to tell him it’s easier to “just say yes.”
“Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?” Heinrich asked.
” I’ve spoken about …” Mamdani began to answer before Trump said, “That’s okay. You can just say yes.”
“Okay, all right,” Mamdani continued, as Trump added, “It’s easier. It’s it’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.” [Fox News today]
It’s a Reagan moment. It takes huge inner security to deal with a foe in this way. Many say Trump is a narcissist. But narcissists are not secure. Authentic, confident people are.
Having said that, Mamdani is not a peaceful man and did not deserve to be in the Oval Office. Communism and socialism are the systems of totalitarian brute force. We know that from their theories and from at least a century of practice.
These systems hold productive people at gunpoint and force them to hand over the products of their efforts to the political class. Not OK, and will never be OK. Immoral and impractical. Mamdani, while with Trump, lied that he cares about the physical safety of Jewish New Yorkers. If you care about the physical safety of Jews, you don’t pose approvingly with the man who participated in the first World Trade Center bombing of 1993, as Mamdani did during the campaign, a mere month ago.
Politicians always lie. But the stakes are so very high now. Heaven help New York — and America.