silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump | How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down16file-text
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Mind you: She is still quite right-wing She is resigning from Congress in the face of right-wing threats rather than mounting any kind of meaningful opposition
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days agoIt is a permission structure for MAGAs to recognize trump as one with the elites they love to hate. I think it’s fine, for now to beat the immense cognitive dissonance of recognizing that you were completely wrong.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 hours agoIt’s probably good overall. It was his cult of personality anyway, so them dethroning him will only make the party eat itself faster.
It is a permission structure for MAGAs to recognize trump as one with the elites they love to hate. I think it’s fine, for now to beat the immense cognitive dissonance of recognizing that you were completely wrong.
It’s probably good overall. It was his cult of personality anyway, so them dethroning him will only make the party eat itself faster.