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Marjorie Taylor Greene open to healthcare deal with Democrats amid shutdown
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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Hi, foreigner here, can any Americans explain why the f MTG's opinions seem to get a disproportionate amount of coverage even when they're fairly bland ones like this? As far as I can tell she's not a member of the cabinet or in any kind of leadership role within the party, or have I missed something?
Is it really just as simple as the press loves to give disproportionate airtime and column inches to far-right demagogues, even when it's the Guardian?
We had a genre of television show in the US called "Professional Wrestling" which underwent a number of name-changes and variations over the years like "World Wrestling Federation." and other titles and was all mostly controlled by one media company.
It was not a real professional sport of any kind, but it always pretended it was real. It featured scripted characters who became more and more sensational and outlandish fighting in pre-determined, choreographed "fights."
It was just a form of story-telling escapism and fantasy for people who didn't read books. Because it always maintained it was "real" despite all evidence to the contrary, some segment of people got so wrapped up in the stories about heroes and villains that they fiercely defended the idea that it was real, despite featuring characters who did magic and the like, and not only resisted attempts to tell them it's fake, they got mad at people trying to tell them it's fake, because they felt like someone was trying to take away their fun. This was basically Lord of The Rings as an ongoing story for illiterate teenagers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Professional Wrestling character. She is an antagonist whom people who don't read love to hate or hate to love. Despite being an obvious "antagonist character" enough people wanted to believe in her that they got her elected to office. This is because broadly, people everywhere want narratives and storylines more than they want material outcomes.
Most conservative politics has gone this direction. It can be argued that the Democrat party here, the "opposition party" is in on this act to a degree, or maybe entirely in on it.
It should also be noted that Donald Trump was deeply involved in Wrestling media and learned how kayfabe works many years ago.
Bingo.
Now you basically understand how we got here.
Yeah I suspected it might be the case, I was just hoping I was wrong.
She’s famous for being dumb and extreme, and she was an early Trump diehard. That’s pretty much it.
Well right now it's news because... Well, her opinions are reasonable and sometimes even well thought out which, you know, for MTG is news worthy next her usual mode is "Karen on crack cocaine spouting conspiracy theories"
She has a record of making statements that bear a profound stupidity that attracts attention. She is the originator of the "jewish space laser" meme. She is also on a weird redemption arc (it wont work) but she seems to be more reasonable and is acting more professionally since Trump took office.
TRUMP HAS BEEN ignoring her since he got elected, she probably expected a cabinet seat, more publicity,,,etc. Shes on a vendetta right now, and the gop really have pushed her out of thier backdoor deals.
Just because she's a provocateur and gets a lot of attention because of it. It's also breaking ranks so it will get press anyway.