What I’d Be Worried About From Marjorie Taylor Greene If I Were The President
The Wildcard That Could Blow Up the MAGA Machine-When Your Own Monster Stops Taking Orders.
Author’s Note:
Yeah… I know. I just wrote about MTG and Trump yesterday.
But I couldn’t responsibly sit on this next piece.
Not for a day. Not for an hour.
You needed this NOW.
When the threat shifts…the analysis has to shift with it.
This one matters.
This is a longer one…but…again…it matters. (And I promise…I’ll hold your attention to the end.)
-Jack
What I’d Be Worried About From Marjorie Taylor Greene If I Were The President
The Wildcard That Could Blow Up the MAGA Machine-When Your Own Monster Stops Taking Orders.
The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #650: Sunday, November 16th, 2025.
Let me tell you something the political class refuses to admit out loud…
If I were the President of the United States…and I watched Marjorie Taylor Greene storm across the political landscape like a human grenade who never actually stops cooking…I wouldn’t be laughing.
I wouldn’t be dismissing her. And I sure as hell….wouldn’t think she’s some sideshow who flames out when the lights go off.
No.
If I were the President…
I’d be worried.
And not for the reasons people assume.
See, most folks think MTG is a clown…an embarrassment…a political accident who slipped through a congressional district like a kidney stone…and somehow got lodged in the national bloodstream.
But that’s small-minded…surface-level thinking…the kind that gets leaders blindsided. It’s the kind of arrogant underestimation…that lets dangerous people accumulate power…right under everyone’s nose.
The truth…is far less funny.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is dangerous not because she is smart…
but because she doesn’t have to be.
She is dangerous because she is:
completely unburdened by shame
incapable of embarrassment
immune to consequences
addicted to attention
willing to say things no normal politician would dare say
and backed by extremist factions who will use her recklessness as a weapon
If you’re a president…ANY president…this is the exact kind of person who can do real… irreversible damage.
And I’ll prove it.
She Has Nothing To Lose…And That Is The Most Dangerous Kind Of Politician Alive
Most members of Congress fear something.
They fear losing reelection.
They fear donors.
They fear backlash.
They fear humiliating headlines.
They fear leadership turning on them.
They fear being iced out of committees.
They fear becoming irrelevant.
They fear being seen as a joke.
Marjorie Taylor Greene fears none of this.
She fears nothing.
And that makes her more dangerous…than a room full of Ivy-trained political schemers.
Fearless people with microphones…and cult fanbases…create political weather systems. Tornadoes. Flash floods. Sudden storms that rip open the roof…just when the president thought the forecast was clear.
If I were the President, THAT is what would worry me…
Not that she’s loud…but that she’ll never back down…never shut up…and never get tired.
And…she’s willing to set her own party on fire…to roast one of her enemies.
There is no leash.
There is no loyalty.
There is no “team” in her brain.
There is only the spotlight.
A president facing MTG…isn’t facing a congresswoman.
They’re facing an arsonist.
She Makes The Extremists Feel “Seen”… And That’s Where Real Trouble Begins
Here’s something every real political strategist understands…
Most political movements aren’t driven by majorities.
They’re powered by obsessed minorities.
The fringe moves first.
The fringe organizes hardest.
The fringe shows up the most.
The fringe volunteers…donates…agitates…and intimidates.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the fringe’s mascot…its narrator…its idol…and its mouthpiece…all wrapped in one.
She gives the outer-fringe:
conspiracy theorists
Christian nationalists
militia-adjacent tough-guy cosplayers
white supremacist Telegram lurkers
“I’m not racist but…” Facebook uncles
Q-born diehards
anti-vaxx die-hards
Doomsday patriots
“civil war fantasy” preppers
and people who believe they’re one YouTube video away from saving the republic
…someone to rally around.
That’s how a fringe becomes a force.
If I’m the President…I worry when extremists stop hiding.
I worry when they think they have representation in Congress.
I worry when someone like MTG tells them they’re justified…righteous…and brave for believing the outlandish garbage she bottles and sells like snake oil.
This is where insurrections don’t just happen…
This is where they get marketed.
She Has The One Skill That Matters Most In 2025 Politics: Outrage Engineering
Let me be brutally honest…
Facts don’t move voters.
Data doesn’t move voters.
Policies don’t move voters.
OUTRAGE moves voters.
And MTG…is a damn savant at engineering outrage.
She can take a dull Tuesday afternoon…and turn it into a five-alarm political panic… with a single sentence spoken into a cheap microphone in a hallway.
She is the right-wing version of a viral shock comedian…except instead of jokes…she uses conspiracy bait and rage gasoline.
If I were the President, I’d be worried because:
She knows how to hijack a news cycle.
She knows how to turn small stories into infernos.
She knows how to shift attention away from real issues.
She knows how to create chaos at will.
And she’ll do it even if it hurts her own side.
She is the first politician in American history who runs on Total Destruction Marketing.
The product? Chaos.
The brand? Fury.
The business model? Attention.
The audience? The angriest people in America.
A President facing Marjorie Taylor Greene has to fight a two-front war:
governing
and extinguishing the political fires she starts every 48 hours
That drains time…energy…momentum…message discipline…and public trust.
This is how presidencies get derailed.
She Doesn’t Follow Rules…Because She Doesn’t Believe They Apply To Her
Most politicians live in a world of invisible fences.
They know the boundaries:
“You can’t say THAT.”
“You can’t accuse THEM.”
“You can’t break THIS norm.”
“You can’t spread THAT lie.”
“You can’t behave THAT unprofessionally.”
“You can’t target THAT institution.”
“You can’t threaten THAT person.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene sees those fences…and laughs.
Not because she’s brave.
But because she doesn’t understand…or care…why the fences exist.
If I’m the President…this is what keeps me up at night:
You can’t predict someone who has no internal governor.
You can’t negotiate with someone who wants chaos more than compromise.
You can’t shame someone who lives beyond embarrassment.
You can’t “discipline” someone whose entire brand is being undisciplined.
And…you certainly can’t ignore…someone whose political superpower…is the ability to hijack the national conversation…with a single ignorant statement.
She is a chaos machine…without an off switch.
And chaos machines don’t need strategy to cause damage.
They just need volume.
She Is The “Symbolic Finger” For An Entire Movement That’s Ready To SNAP
Every authoritarian movement in history had a figure who:
pushed the Overton window
said what no one else dared say
legitimized the extreme
escalated the rhetoric
normalized the abnormal
and made moderates look weak by comparison
Marjorie Taylor Greene is that person.
She is the symbolic middle finger of the MAGA movement.
And if I’m the President…I’m watching one thing very closely:
When the symbol becomes the spear.
Because symbols are safe…until they’re pointed.
And MTG…is becoming pointed.
Her language…is getting sharper.
Her threats…are getting bigger.
Her accusations…are getting wilder.
Her willingness to incite…is skyrocketing.
Her restraint…is evaporating.
Her influence among the deranged…is increasing.
Her control over the narrative…is expanding.
Presidents don’t fear politicians like MTG.
Presidents fear what people like MTG…activate.
And she is activating something dark…primal…irrational…and unstable.
Presidents don’t worry about enemies who debate.
Presidents worry about enemies who detonate.
She Create Distractions At Exactly The Moments The President Needs Clarity
Every presidency has windows where momentum must be built:
a legislative push
a national crisis
a diplomatic window
an economic pivot
a messaging reset
a major announcement
a national address
a scandal that needs oxygen deprivation
MTG…is a one-woman sabotage unit.
Right when the president needs the public to focus, she unleashes a new scandal scream into the bloodstream:
a baseless accusation
a conspiracy theory
a personal attack
a threat
a fantasy impeachment
a stunt
a media freak show
a call for violence
Suddenly the oxygen the president needed…
gets sucked straight into her circus tent.
She doesn’t need power to obstruct.
She needs attention.
And she knows how to take it.
She Can’t Be Controlled By Leadership… And That Makes Her A Free-Radical
If I’m the President…I’m looking at MTG and seeing the most dangerous kind of congressional actor:
A member who doesn’t fear their own leadership.
Republican leadership can’t contain her.
They can’t shame her.
They can’t suspend her.
They can’t redirect her.
They can’t predict her.
They can’t threaten her electorally.
They can’t buy her silence.
They can’t discipline her.
She doesn’t need the party.
The party needs her.
Because she has the crazies.
She has the rage-machines.
She has the digital mob.
She has the performative patriots.
She has the attention sphere locked down.
And any Republican who pushes her…risks being attacked by her followers.
This creates a nightmare scenario:
A lawmaker who is ungovernable inside a governing body.
That’s…a political cancer.
And the President…has to deal with the metastasis.
She’s Willing To Say The Quiet Part Out Loud…And That Ruins Strategic Timing
Authoritarian movements require two things:
coded language for the masses
plausible deniability for the leadership
Marjorie Taylor Greene…breaks the second rule.
She blurts out:
true intentions
hidden desires
extremist fantasies
authoritarian impulses
things the movement wants
things the movement hides
plans the movement whispers
She exposes the ugly parts.
And that is what makes her dangerous.
Because when someone like MTG says something way too early… before the rest of the movement is ready…it forces the President to address problems prematurely.
It disrupts timing.
It ruins messaging.
It exposes intentions.
It accelerates backlash.
It forces the President to take a stand…that alters the political battlefield.
This is how a single reckless voice…reshapes national strategy.
WHAT I’D BE WORRIED ABOUT MOST
Here is the truth no one wants to say:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a destabilizer.
Not a leader.
Not a strategist.
Not a thinker.
Not an operator.
A destabilizer.
And destabilizers…are nightmares for presidents.
Because you can’t beat them.
You can’t negotiate with them.
You can’t co-opt them.
You can’t humiliate them.
You can’t reason with them.
You can only brace for the chaos they create.
And MTG has another decade of political oxygen in her tank.
If I were the President?
I’d be watching her like a hawk.
Not because she might rise.
But because she might take everyone else…down with her.
BONUS SECTION:
The Part No One Wants To Say Out Loud About MTG…And Why You Need To Raise Your Hand Right Now
Let me drop the polished analysis and tell you the truth the way I’d tell you over a beer…and wasn’t polite enough to come with a forewarning…
If you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is the problem… you’re not paying attention.
The REAL problem is this:
She says the SAME unhinged things Trump says…but when she says them…the danger level changes.
Because when Trump unleashes some wild…rage-filled blast… everybody already knows the formula.
Half the country shrugs it off as “Trump being Trump.” The other half rolls their eyes and braces for the next eruption. It’s expected. It’s priced in. It’s background noise… from a man who’s been performing the same act for years.
But when Marjorie Taylor Greene echoes those same authoritarian impulses?
It lands differently.
It hits deeper.
It carries farther.
Why?
Because Trump yelling something reckless onstage is one thing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that same thing from…inside Congress turns it into something else entirely.
Suddenly:
Fringe fantasies start sounding like legislative trial balloons.
Violent rhetoric starts sounding like policy direction.
Authoritarian impulses start sounding like a party agenda.
What once felt like one man’s deranged performance…starts feeling like a movement with lieutenants.
She takes Trump’s most dangerous ideas… and normalizes them.
Institutionalizes them.
Repackages them as “serious” because they’re coming from an elected official inside the machinery of government.
And THAT is the part that should make every American shiver.
Because when Trump says something unhinged, it’s a threat.
When MTG repeats it…it becomes a signal. A cue. A green light.
And here’s where this all leaps from “political concern” to national danger…
Because once a movement has TWO voices…one at the top and one inside the government…repeating the same authoritarian fantasies… that’s when the fringe stops being fringe.
That’s when ideas become instructions.
That’s when rhetoric becomes ritual.
That’s when the outer edges of the movement stop whispering…and start acting.
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t just echo Trump…she amplifies him.
She legitimizes him.
She institutionalizes what should never have gotten past a barstool rant at Mar-a-Lago.
And more importantly:
She gives MAGA’s most dangerous believers…the illusion that they now have “backup” inside the building.
Not one leader.
Not one voice.
Not one unhinged man with too much power.
But a budding ecosystem of extremism.
A relay system.
A chorus.
A pipeline that runs straight from fringe fantasy → Trump’s mouth → Greene’s microphone → Congress → right into the bloodstream of the most unstable members of the American public.
And that’s when movements stop needing orders.
That’s when they start writing their own.
Because when two people in power say the same dangerous thing…
The third…fourth…and fifth don’t think they’re being radical.
They think they’re being loyal.
This is how a movement metastasizes.
This is how democracies tip.
This is how countries fall.
Not from one mad king shouting into the void…
But from lieutenants stepping forward to prove they’re willing to go further than the king himself.
And that…right there… is why Marjorie Taylor Greene is more dangerous than she looks.
Because once the understudies stop waiting in the wings and start performing onstage…the show changes.
And the ending gets darker.
I’m going to tell you something blunt:
We are running out of Americans who will raise their hand and do the uncomfortable shit that saves their country.
We’re drowning in commentators.
We’re drowning in spectators.
We’re drowning in people who treat democracy like a subscription service you can cancel when the plot gets slow.
But we don’t have enough fighters.
We don’t have enough organizers.
We don’t have enough people who can pick up the phone and make a representative uncomfortable.
We don’t have enough people who flood timelines…inboxes…feeds…hearings…and offices with TRUTH…not timid opinions.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a wrecking ball.
But she succeeds only if the rest of us stay quiet.
And let me say this clearly:
You are either a participant in saving democracy…
Or a spectator in watching it die.
There is no middle.
There is no neutral.
There is no “I hope things work out.”
Nothing “works out.”
People MAKE it work out.
And I have bad news for anyone thinking someone else will step up:
You’re the “someone.”
You always were.
Every moment I write for you…every newsletter you read…every piece of intel you process…it’s the proverbial ammunition.
But ammunition in your head doesn’t win battles.
You win when you use it.
And use it relentlessly.
This is not a spectator era.
This is not a hope era.
This is not a “maybe things won’t get that bad” era.
This is an era where:
civil rights are on the table
democracy is on the table
truth is on the table
elections are on the table
justice is on the table
your children’s future is on the table
whether America collapses or survives is on the table
And the people trying to burn the table down?
They are organized.
They are loud.
They are funded.
They are disciplined in destruction.
And they are completely unashamed.
We don’t get to beat that by being polite.
We beat it by being relentless.
Unmovable.
Undefeatable.
And loud.
Louder than them.
Here’s What You Do Next…Right Now.
Not tomorrow.
Not when you “have time.”
Not when the news gets worse.
NOW.
Call your representatives this week.
Tell them MTG’s behavior is a national security threat.
Tell them you expect aggressive pushback.
Forward this article to five people who are asleep at the wheel.
Wake them up.
Burn the apathy out of them.
Stay engaged…relentlessly.
Daily.
Not occasionally.
Democracy is a lifestyle…not a hobby.
Join the people fighting back…publicly.
Comment.
Share.
Push.
Pressure.
Don’t be “quietly concerned.”
Be LOUDLY effective.
Because here’s the truth:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is loud because she thinks we’re weak.
She thinks we won’t push back.
She thinks we won’t organize.
She thinks we won’t stand in her way.
She thinks we’ll watch this country be dragged backward without a fight.
Prove her wrong.
Prove them ALL wrong.
Raise your hand.
Pick up the hose.
Join the fight.
This is the moment history remembers…and it will remember what YOU did next.
So here’s the truth no strategist, no pundit, no insider wants to say on camera:
Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t the threat.
She’s the test.
What is MTG…Really?
She’s the stress test of America’s immune system.
And how we respond to her…tells us everything…about whether this country survives the next five years.
Because movements don’t collapse…because the extremists give up.
They collapse because…the rest of us refuse to be intimidated.
Refuse to be silenced.
Refuse to let the unhinged set the terms of the future.
But here’s the part that matters most:
We’re out of time for passive spectators.
This isn’t a moment where you “stay informed.”
This is a moment where you choose your role in what happens next.
There are two kinds of Americans right now:
1. The ones hoping things won’t get worse.
2. The ones preparing to stop it.
If you’re still reading this…you are not in Group 1.
You are someone who sees the threat clearly.
You are someone who understands the stakes.
You are someone who is supposed to be part of the firewall.
And I want you in the room with the people who aren’t just shaking their heads…
…but actually preparing for the political knife fight of our lifetime.
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Because if this article hits you in the gut…
if this feels like the country is standing on the edge of something…
if you know…deep down…that we are entering a new phase of the fight…
Then it’s time.
This is not the moment to sit on the sidelines.
This is the moment to step into the inner circle.
This is the moment to move from “reading” to preparing.
This is the moment to upgrade.
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