Marjorie Taylor Greene has one noteworthy skill, and it has little to do with passing legislation: The former congresswoman knows how to make headlines. If she didn’t, she might not have won office at all. A 2019 story in Hatewatch, a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center, traced her rise to Facebook, where she had unleashed conspiracy theories to a growing audience. She said that Representative Ilhan Omar had married her own brother; that Nancy Pelosi was “guilty of treason” and would “suffer death” or go to prison for her crimes against the American people; that the Parkland, Florida, school massacre was a “false flag” operation. In another video, she harassed Parkland survivor David Hogg, who, she claimed, did the bidding of Jewish philanthropist George Soros. Elsewhere, she said Soros was a “Nazi himself.” In other posts, she said that the Rothschilds had created a “laser beam or a light beam” in space and used it to cause wildfires in California and that Q, the godlike figure behind QAnon, was “a patriot.” That’s why she supported Donald Trump. “There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it,” she once said.

Greene has since deleted many of her old social-media posts and distanced herself from QAnon. The internet had “sucked” her in, she said in a 2023 interview with Fox News. Then she lied. “I never campaigned on those things. That was not something I believed in,” she told Howard Kurtz. Has Greene changed? She apparently wants people to think so. Over the past year, she has fashioned herself into a MAGA dissenter by attacking Trump over his tariffs, his bellicose foreign policy, and, most vocally, his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. In November, Trump revoked his endorsement of her;........

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