It took a lot of imagination to foresee that one day Marjorie Taylor Greene would represent a form of compromise within the Republican Party. This political arsonist, elected from Georgia to the House of Representatives, is the most brutal and ambitious incarnation of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, the slogan of Donald Trump. Fervent advocate of the former president, she took fire rather than dialogue, opprobrium rather than argument.
However, during the open crisis that occurred between January 3 and 6 in the House on the occasion of the eventful election of Kevin McCarthy as speaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene stood at the side of the candidate, against some of his friends MAGA. She, the 48-year-old conspiratorial transgressive, always willing to trample convention, supported the grizzled representative of traditional politics as it has always been practiced in Washington.
Conversion? Sign of maturity? Certainly not. Marjorie Taylor Greene has an agenda: herself. In October, in a portrait published by the New York Times Magazineshe said this, about McCarthy: “I think that in order to become the best speaker in the House and to satisfy the base, he is going to have to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. » Everything was said. A pact of interests was forged between these two perfectly contradictory characters.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused her fellow Trumpists, opposing the nomination of Kevin McCarthy, of being “destroyers”. But nothing distinguishes it from them, if not a different strategy at the dawn of this new Republican majority, resulting from the mid-term elections. An incredible photo immortalized the elected representative of Georgia at the height of the parliamentary crisis, on January 6, when Kevin McCarthy had just failed at the 14e ballot. She held her cell phone at arm’s length to pass it on to her colleague Matt Rosendale, one of the last rebels. The device displayed the name of its correspondent: “DT”. Donald Trump, planted in front of his television in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, spoke from a distance to ask his supporters to stop the humiliation.
Once the victory was won, Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first to pose alongside Kevin McCarthy. His trophy candidate. This support was quickly rewarded, on January 18, with a seat on the coveted committee on internal security, which will notably allow him to access classified information.
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