As someone who looks at politics through the eyes of a psychotherapist, in addition to being a Substacker on the lookout for something original to write about, I consider MTG to be one of four present or recent members of Congress who I consider interesting psychologically. The other three are Lauren Boebert, George Santos, and Matt Gaetz. They are all mental health aberrations but not particularly interesting.
None of them stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of mounting a credible primary challenge to whoever Trump annoints to replace him assuming he hasn’t declared himself president for life. They have earned their irrelevancy despite the media attention they’ve received.
Currently the three likely people to try to claw their way into the Oval Office, at least to being the GOP primary candidates, are Vance, Rubio, and Donald “Spawn of Trump” Junior. None of them have what could be called the charisma of Boebert, Santos, or Gaetz. Each have their own kind of flash.
None of these six come close to having the charisma, the flash, of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Compared to her they define dull and boring.
If you haven’t seen her announcement, here it is on X:
I see a crucial line in what she said as being “I’m going back to the people that I love to live my life to the fullest as I always have and I look forward to a new path ahead.” For MTG living life to the fullest means being president. How much fuller could her life be than holding her current position as one of the most outspoken members of Congress. There’s only one way to be fuller than that.
There are various ways MTG could end up sitting behind the deck in the Oval Office, but I see one clear path for her and it involves mostly Marjorie being Marjorie which is something she won’t have any trouble doing.
She is a natural born political predator. She has the feral intelligence of a stalking female lion.
There’s only one thing that she should not do and I am sure she knows this. It is running for Senator in Georgia. She cannot risk a defeat in a state that elected two Democrats to represent them in the Senate. I don’t think she should run for governor either. She has to be laser focused on running in the GOP presidential primary.
Like that stalking lion she will pick off and devour the weakest animals in the pack of hapless prey. I don’t know whether the first to fall will be Vance, Rubio, or Junior. They may hobble each other trying to curry Big Daddy’s favor. Marjorie will watch this from the bushes as she elevates her own profile as the credible candidate most likely to defeat whoever the Democrats run. She may dismiss the GOP big three as mere Trump wannabes and focus her attacks on Newsom and Shapiro if, as I think likely, they emerge as the top Democratic candidates.
Depending on how much liquid manure Trump sprays on the three Donnie dorks lusting after his job and how they deal with this, Marjorie will be making decisions as to how to attack each of them most effectively.
How smart is Marjorie at burnishing her image. She knows her optics. Consider just this from her announcement video:
I wouldn’t be surprised if she became president if we saw a small CrossFit gym (Greene used to own a successful one) in a room next to the Oval Office. Marjorie could work out there band have photos posted of her on X.
Marjorie is MAGA. She will emphasize how MAGA she is during the primary and then moderate the MAGA if she wins and runs for president. She’s already successfully apologized for her divisive comments and admitted being wrong. She’ll have no problem once she was running for president saying she sees how she was mislead into believing Trump won the 2020 election for example. Depending on public outcry about the brutality of ICE she could move towards a more humane position on how immigration laws are enforced. The same could go for Trump’s need to flex whatever muscles he has under his flacid flesh by bombing boats and televising snuff videos. Marjorie does have to be a macho poseur.
I see her as having more fire in her belly than Vance, Rubio, and Junior combined. Among the four of them, if I was in a street brawl I would want Marjorie on my side.
She knows she has to achieve a balance between being the tough-guy candidate and being feminine, but not in a woke way.
Look for the first sign she’s aware of the need to do this by signs she’s been working with a voice coach to soften her voice.
Her winning the primary could very well hinge on the answer to the famous beer question (see Wikipedia)
I can answer that one without hesitation. Even though there’s no way I’d vote for her in the general election of the four lilely candidates I would want to have a beer with Marjorie.
She could actually win, especially if the country has descended into a cruel autocratic dictatorship that becomes unpopular with the majority of voters.
If she saw this happening it would be in her interest to do everything she could to assure free and fair elections. She could very well determine that in this kind of election she has a good chance of sitting where she’s a always wanted to sit as shown below:
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