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ericjhensal

(13 posts)
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 07:47 PM Wednesday

The Turning Point for Marjorie Taylor Greene against Trump and the GOP

https://erichensal.substack.com/p/a-turning-point-for-marjorie-taylor

Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have blinked in the face of Trump’s MAGA attack. She had the temerity to believe her closeness to Trump would buy her the privilege to speak out for constituents in some normal fashion on health care or Epstein. She misread the room. But this does not mean she has lost in retirement.

Just for some different perspectives, I used Claude AI to analyze her resignation speech—to count complaints, common phrases like “Common American” (11 times), and references to perceived attackers. It is an LLM’s bread-and-butter analysis. Then, because the phrase stood out to me, I prompted it: “Based on research so far, view her speech as an elaboration on her position ‘I refuse to be a battered wife.’”

This returned something with unexpected detail. Claude interpreted her remarks in ways that closely tracked with established schemas describing domestic-violence victims and survivors. For confirmation, I ran similar prompts on other AIs, and all turned up nearly the same pattern—almost as if she structured her remarks with a textbook checklist. Her speech, taken as a whole, follows the recognizable arc many survivors describe and that researchers document in the process of leaving an abusive relationship.

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The Turning Point for Marjorie Taylor Greene against Trump and the GOP (Original Post) ericjhensal Wednesday OP
Would wearing a hat brim so wide that Donald could not kiss you fit in here somewhere? Norrrm Wednesday #1
That is one interesting analysis of what MTG has said and is doing. You may be onto something.n/t CaliforniaPeggy Wednesday #2
Pre planned KentuckyWoman Wednesday #3
This is what I've been thinking right along. intheflow Thursday #4

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,887 posts)
2. That is one interesting analysis of what MTG has said and is doing. You may be onto something.n/t
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 08:50 PM
Wednesday

KentuckyWoman

(7,363 posts)
3. Pre planned
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 09:04 PM
Wednesday

5 yrs she can take money and run on to the next grift

I can usually find at least 1 redeeming quality in people. She is not one of them.

intheflow

(29,916 posts)
4. This is what I've been thinking right along.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:24 PM
Thursday

She and Bobert have been sidelined from the Boys Club entrenched in the GOP. They were useful idiots, legitimizing Trump & Co. toxic masculinity, which they tried to augment with toxic femininity disguised as patriotism. So, yeah, abuse survivor is right, but even though she’s leaving Congress, she still supports most of the aims of this administration: banish immigrants, wreck the economy and the environment for personal enrichment, illegal redistricting, and fetal cells above the life of the mother.

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