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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician—a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

The Arizona senator was beloved by the media; MTG never was, at least until she started feuding with President Donald Trump.

On the contrary, her reputation in the press was as the poster girl for the GOP’s conspiracy wing, the queen of Q Anon.

But it’s not what sets her apart from other Republicans that makes Greene’s resignation from the House—effective Jan. 5—significant.

What the president and GOP leaders in Congress have to worry about is how typical she might be—of legislators frustrated by what the future holds.

“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. And Mike Johnson has let it happen,” a “particularly exercised senior House Republican” told Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News.

According to Sherman’s unnamed source, “nearly all” Republicans in Congress—”appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file”—feel “run roughshod and threatened” by the administration, which doesn’t so much as “allow little wins like........

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