With all the policy conflicts and a brewing civil war among Republicans right now, the advice from the pundits and the pollsters is: “Don’t Punch Right!” Yes, a political party needs political and policy unity to succeed, as much as possible, but let’s not fool ourselves that consensus will be complete. It never is. 

And what do you do when someone on the right is punching right? Do we just let them get away with it? I say no to that. 

If someone is muddying the waters or mucking up the agenda because of hurt feelings or personal spats, you have to say something. Right now, one of the most disappointing examples fostering this division is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. At one point, MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow celebrated the Congresswoman with “MTG, MAGA’S MVP!” She looked stilted and out of place in that video, and her actions today confirm that she has lost her way. She actively criticizes the Republican conference and fraternizes with the left. She should offer her colleagues solutions, trash the Democrats, and promote the MAGA agenda. 

This denunciation cuts particularly deep for me, because she worked with MassResistance, the international pro-family organization that I have worked for since 2018. She had helped shut down a drag queen story hour program in Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta, before she began campaigning for Congress. She would move into northeastern Georgia, a more Republican district, and the rest was history. As a pro-Trump outsider, she prevailed in a contentious Republican primary that advanced into a runoff. By then, her would-be Democrat challenger left the state, forfeiting the district by default. 

During her first term, Congresswoman Greene took a bold stand on many issues, unafraid to speak her mind. People mocked her and condemned her with unjust attacks about her so-called anti-Semitism and rantings about “Jewish space lasers”. She prevailed again in Election 2022, dispatching a mass of GOP primary challengers.

Problems emerged when she supported Kevin McCarthy for Speaker in 2023.

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