Peter Wehner, a former senior aide to President George W. Bush, warned in a new essay that he believed it was “unwise” to write off the right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is “an outcast, fringe. figure, deranged but isolated.”
Greene is now “a confidante” of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Wehner noted in a column for The Atlantic.
And this week’s extremist Republican call for a “national divorce” is “giving voice to a widespread and growing sentiment” in the GOP, he added.
“MAGA Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene have added calls for secession to the corrosive lies of the 2020 presidential election,” he wrote. “More incendiary and fraudulent claims will follow.”
“Greene and McCarthy – one crazed, the other cowardly – constitute a large swath of the modern GOP,” Wehner concluded. “Any party that makes room for seditionists and secessionists is sick and dangerous.”