Marjorie Taylor Greene has done something rare in modern American politics: she has inadvertently testified—on camera, in her own words—to the core claims the Left has been making about President Trump’s movement for a decade. Not by recanting her extremism, not by discovering conscience, and not by becoming perceptive. She is still an opportunistic loon... yes. But she proved somethings the way compromised insiders always do when they finally collide with the machine they he

Every collapsing political cult has a predictable endgame. The loudest zealots eventually become liabilities. The opportunists sense the wind shift and pretend they were always “independent.” The true believers fracture into feuds and purity tests. Yet one figure remains, white-knuckled on the railing as the ship lists and floods: the Last Rat Launderer—the credential-costumed functionary whose entire value is not what he believes, but what he can legitimize. He does not mere

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most revealing performance in this entire episode is not her momentary dissent from President Trump. It is her apparent surprise that a statutory transparency mechanism she championed did not produce transparency. That surprise is dispositive. It proves she is not merely cynical or opportunistic—she is stupid in the specific, operational sense that matters in authoritarian politics: she does not understand how power actually works. The Epstein Files T

There is a universe—thin, fragile, shimmering like heat over asphalt— where Chris Hayes might have been right. It’s not this  universe, of course, the one with object permanence and a functioning memory. But in some alternate plane, where definitions invert and humiliation counts as leverage, maybe Hayes’ old argument that President Trump’s craving for the Nobel Peace Prize was “useful” finally cashes out. Because if this —the spectacle of the FIFA Peace Prize , the most cha