This week Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ignored Donald Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Mike Johnson as House speaker and announced plans to try to force him out. One can only assume she is making that attempt for attention, because it seems doomed to fail on the House floor. Democrats have already pledged to support Johnson, and he has backing from much of the Republican caucus. You may recall, Greene and the rest of the Freedom Caucus were the reason it took 15 rounds for former Rep.
For those House Republicans who don’t hang out with white nationalists or say antisemitic things, but who have coddled Greene and the Freedom Caucus, the brewing storm looks a lot like karma. You can’t embrace a platform based on anti-intellectualism and half-truths and then get mad when someone does something stupid.