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WHY IS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE LIKE THIS?

On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe

By Elaina Plott Calabro
Illustrations by Eric Yahnker

Illustration by Eric Yahnker. Source: House Creative Services.
December 5, 2022
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She was very late. A man named Barry was compelled to lead the room in a
rendition of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” to stall for time. But when
she did arrive, the tardiness was forgiven and the Cobb County Republican
Party’s November breakfast was made new. She wasn’t greeted. She was beheld,
like a religious apparition. Emotions verged on rapture. Later, as she spoke,
one man jumped to his feet with such force that his chair fell over. Not far
away, two women clung to each other and shrieked. I was knocked to my seat when
a tablemate’s corrugated-plastic FLOOD THE POLLS sign collided inadvertently
with my head. Upon looking up, I came eye-level with a pistol tucked into the
khaki waistband of an elderly man in front of me. “She is just so great,” I
heard someone say. “I mean, she really is just amazing.”


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Marjorie Taylor Greene arrived in Congress in January 2021, blond and crass and
indelibly identified with conspiracy theories involving Jewish space lasers and
Democratic pedophiles. She had barely settled into office before being stripped
of her committee assignments; she has been called a “cancer” on the Republican
Party by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; and she now has a loud voice in
the GOP’s most consequential decisions on Capitol Hill because her party’s
leaders know, and she knows they know, that she has become far too popular with
their voters to risk upsetting her.



Nobody saw her coming. Not even Greene saw Greene coming.


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She was a product, her family loved to say, of the “Great American Dream.” There
was a three-story home at the end of a shaded driveway in the small town of
Cumming, Georgia, north of Atlanta; there was a finished basement in which
Marge—and that is what she was called, Marge—and her friends would gather in
faded nylon one-pieces after a swim in Lake Lanier.

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