Marjorie Taylor Greene's Puzzling Political Turn, Explained

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I'm Dave Davies. Since she was elected to Congress five years ago, no one has been a more combative advocate for Donald Trump than Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. No one, that is, until lately. Green defied the president by joining Democrats on legislation to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and she's criticized Trump's policies on tariffs, Israel cryptocurrency, and not extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act policies, a key issue in the government shutdown.

And on Sunday, a day after President Trump announced the U.S. military assault in Caracas to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Green appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and condemned the operation as exactly the kind of foreign military intervention he and the MAGA movement have campaigned against. I am not defending Maduro, and of course I'm happy for the people of Venezuela to be liberated, but Americans celebrated the liberation of the Iraqi people after Saddam Hussein. They celebrated the the liberation of the Libyan people after Gaddafi. And this is the same Washington playbook that we are so sick and tired of that doesn't serve the American people, but actually serves the big corporations, the banks, and the oil executives.

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