Marjorie Taylor Greene really wants us to believe she’s done with politics. That’s what the retiring Georgia GOP congresswoman told journalist Robert Draper for his lengthy end-of-year profile he wrote for the New York Times. For years, she has been one of the loudest members of Congress, but in November, Greene dramatically announced her plan to resign from the House this month. Now she has claimed to a credulous Draper that she is leaving the arena for good and returning home to marry her fiancé Brian Glenn of the far-right media outlet Real America’s Voice.
The addition of the engagement ring helps sell the story. Greene has long preached a fundamentalist view that women are the “weaker sex,” created by God as servants for men. Continuing to be more powerful and famous than her soon-to-be husband, a third-rate propagandist, is hard to square with her ideology. But Greene, like most Republicans, tends to ignore her stated beliefs when they don’t suit her ambitions. What’s more interesting than her words are her actions, namely the relentless media tour she has been on — including this New York Times profile — over the past few months. Most notably, she has appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “The View,” both far cries from her usual environs of MAGA media outlets and Christian right podcasts.
