Just a Stop-The-Steal Town Girl On a Saturday Night

 

..She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance

It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before...

And being the #1 MAGA maniac on the House floor for five years has been a very profitable enterprise for Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose net worth went from a pre-Congressional total of around $700k to a soon-to-be-post-Congressional total of between $22.5 million and $25 million.  

But now Madge has seen the edge of the mighty cataract over which her lunatic movement is about to plunge.  And with the low, animal cunning that brought her to the House in the first place, she has chosen to beat the rush and cut and run while the cuttin' and runnin' is good.

First, she selected a venerable and proven blueprint of "How To Build a Political Lifeboat".

Then CNN provided the lumber.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Gushes Over ‘Courageous Politician’ Marjorie Taylor Greene

Then The View helped her assemble all the structural elements.

Then 60 Minutes helped her plank the hull.

Also, in case you missed it, WSB-TV (Atlanta) assisted with installing the seats, oarlocks, and whatnot.

And just this very morning, The New York Fucking Times lent a hand by waterproofing the whole thing for her.  Then they let her christen it by giving her control of the headline.

‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump

This is a very long and mostly flattering profile that is a complete waste of your time.  Some stuff you already know.  Some stuff that's new.  But all of it lashed together by the same excuses floated by every Never Trumper since Day One of the Trump era.  Charlie Sykes, Tom Nichols, Adam Kinzinger, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson...and on and on and on, including every Republican who has had their career rehabilitated by the MSNBC Reputation Laundromat. 

I didn't know.  I wasn't aware.  No one could have predicted.  I was misled.  And on and on.

From the Times' column:

...it began to dawn on her that when it came to the president

 ...realized that she had suddenly lost all appetite for vengeance

But perhaps even to her own surprise, Greene was not that person any longer. “Everyone’s like, ‘She’s changed,’” Greene said to me. “I haven’t changed my views. But I’ve matured. I’ve developed depth.” 

...she spoke longingly of the day when she could walk unnoticed into a restaurant or a grocery store.

I was just so naive.

Which, for some reason, puts me in mind of this from Rick in Casablanca:

Yes, it's very pretty. I heard a story once - as a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. "Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid," it always began.

Thus, with the same predictability as the rising of the sun, the legacy media has now furnished Madge with her very own lifeboat.

So lets wrap this thing up with a bit from something I wrote a few years ago, "Boom Times At The Absolution Factory Redux":

...Also the title of Sykes' Bulwark podcast today is:

Will Saletan: Welcome to the Resistance, Bill Barr

And so we arrive at the place where I warned we would end up and I never wanted to be.  Smack in the middle of Monty Python's The Visitors sketch.

First, Never Trumper Arthur Name ("Name by name but not by nature") bulldozes his way into the party and begins rearranging things to his liking.

Then the doorbell rings and...

Arthur Name: I'll get it.  That'll be friends of mine  I took the liberty of inviting them along.

And hey look!  It's Chris Christie!  And right behind him, Bill Barr!  

And so on, and so on, and so on.

And before you know it, we Democrats aren't calling the shots anymore.  In fact, we've become  unwelcome guests in our own fucking home because this is now the "Never Again Trump" Republican Reputation Rehabilitation and Normalization Project.

And if you Liberals have a problem with that, well then go ahead and scribble about it on your silly little blogs.  

There are still blogs, right?  

Because now that the American political media has been completely colonized by a handful of Never Trumpers, well golly kid, there doesn't seem to be any room left at the Adult's Table for whiny Liberal dissenters like you.

Or I suppose you could plead your case directly to those Never Trumpers who have colonized the media.  You could ask them why the Liberals who have actually been right about the Right all along -- who were right long before Bill Kristol told us it was OK -- have no place in the Never Trumper's own "We Told You So" Hall of Heroes.

Go ahead and ask them, and then watch what happens:

Burn The Lifeboats