Despite her rediscovered clarity on Trump's wayward ways, Marjorie Taylor Greene wants US isolationism and protectionism but without international projection of power. In that, she is as stupid as Trump. She wants no international adventurism in US foreign policy, while he wants international adventurism with no boots on the ground which he is replacing with thuggish terrorism.
The US cannot be the superpower it is today without embracing violence. Modern economic colonialism, while not requiring boots on the ground like it was in previous centuries, still does rely on violence, threats and bullying. But by the same token, without boots on the ground, there is a limit to what the US can do to force substantive change in regions it wants to control. Even with boots on the ground and colonial administrators running the colonized countries, colonial powers ultimately failed. So, Trump's thuggish terrorism - a la Venezuela's Maduro capture - is even less likely to steer Venezuela and future candidates for American rape toward a US-friendly posture. We've seen it in Chile in 1973 where a duly and democratically elected president - Salvador Allende - was assassinated by the CIA, replaced by a military dictatorship that turned out to be much worse than what a socialist Allende would have done to the country.
In Venezula, the Great Moron says he wants to "run" Venezuela. Like Bush "ran" Iraq following his fabricated lies-based invasion, Trump's confusing message about why he intervened in Venezuela (narcotraffic, terorrism, oil, despotic dictatorship.... anything you can throw at Maduro) isn't shedding any light on how Americans are likely to succeed in "running" Venezuela.
Given that money and greed are Trump's only god, he may be thinking of running Venezuela via "security gangs" (i.e. mercenaries) protecting giant American oil corporations and their theft of Venezuelan oil. That is what his buddy Vladimir Putin did with the terrorist Wagner Group he dispatched to African countries to replace the national armies, UN troops and French troops. Today, Wagner is gone, ISIS is healthier than it ever was, and the Africans are, again, desperate.
Trump's madness may reach new heights before he fades out into oblivion. He's got three more years, and he is eyeing places like Cuba, Canada, Greenland.... with thuggish violence similar to Venezuela. If Congress manages to extricate itself from the grip of MAGA and Trump in 2026, Trump would have less leeway to implement his madness.
American conservatism is fossilized. It is unable to change with the times. It is stuck somewhere between the 17th and the 19th centuries. Meanwhile the world is changing and the human species is evolving. During the past two centuries, every advance and progress the US made was brutalized back into regression and backwardness by conservative America.
At some point, the chasm will grow so big that the changes will not be reversible.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Maduro capture is 'the same Washington playbook' that we're 'sick and tired of'
Megan Lebowitz
Sun, January 4, 2026
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., slammed the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, saying on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that the operation was part of “the same Washington playbook that we are so sick and tired of that doesn’t serve the American people.”
Greene argued that President Donald Trump and his administration “campaigned on Make America Great Again, that we thought was putting America first.”
“I want to see domestic policy be the priority that helps Americans afford life after four disastrous years of the Biden administration,” she told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, pointing to policies to prioritize jobs, housing and health care.
Her comments come as lawmakers grapple with the operation that captured Maduro and his wife and brought them to the U.S., with lawmakers’ support largely falling along party lines. Greene has previously opposed Trump administration policies that she argued contradicted “America First” principles.
In Sunday’s interview, she said that “we don’t consider Venezuela our neighborhood.”
“Our neighborhood is right here in the 50 United States, not in the Southern Hemisphere,” she said.
On Saturday, Trump was asked by a reporter how running Venezuela aligns with his “America First” agenda, after he said earlier that the U.S. would “run the country” until there was a transition to new leadership.
“I think it is because we want to surround ourselves with good neighbors,” Trump told the reporter. “We want to surround ourselves with stability. We want to surround ourselves with energy. We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves. We need that for the world.”
Greene publicly spoke against the Maduro operation on Saturday as well. The congresswoman said in a post to X that Americans’ “disgust with our own government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it.”
“This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end,” she said in the post. “Boy were we wrong.”
Greene’s last day in Congress will be on Monday. She announced her resignation in November after a public falling-out with Trump, despite having previously been a loyal backer.
Throughout the public fights leading up to Greene’s resignation announcement, the congresswoman broke with him on issues including international relations, Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and Obamacare subsidies.
She has argued that Trump has not focused enough on domestic policy, saying later in a CBS News “60 Minutes” interview that “for an ‘America First’ president, the No. 1 focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t.”
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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