The Turning Point for Marjorie Taylor Greene against Trump and the GOP [View all]

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.

**SNIP**