Dear Marge: An Open Letter to Retiring Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

Congresswoman Taylor Greene, 

On Friday evening at 8:07 p.m., you shared a four-page statement announcing your retirement from the United States House of Representatives, effective January 5, 2026. The statement provided your reasons for abandoning your elected position, including the increasing polarization of American politics and an ineffective Republican Party, of which you have been a proud member since 2020. You shared that the recent attacks by your party's leadership against you had taken their toll and that you felt the only solution was to resign and return to private life to work alongside those you chose to represent. As someone who has followed your career from the onset, your latest act has left me with one undeniable conclusion: 

You are completely full of shit. 

Whether you were crazy then and are coming to your senses now, or if the crazy was all one giant, made-for-TV act, doesn't matter. What matters is that you still, to this day, have a distorted sense of reality. Your statement continued to blame both parties for the current mess that your party has gotten us into. You tried to make yourself out to be some kind of hero for gutting the essential work of USAID. You delved into your pro-life credentials while simultaneously bragging about your fight to limit COVID-19 vaccinations. You somehow still believe that PBS and NPR are, in your words, "hard left politically." And, of course, you remain under the delusion that border security was somehow out of control during the Biden Administration, and you take pride in your vote to impeach the former Secretary of Homeland Security.

None of this is true, but your constituents believe it, so you either believe it yourself or pretend to. Again, it doesn't matter. What does matter is this whole woe-is-me sentiment you're trying to portray with this resignation. What is particularly amusing is the fact that you bemoan having to spend "millions" of your own money to elect Donald Trump. How does someone making $174,000 a year have millions to spend, Marge? You failed to mention the fact that your time in Congress has been amazingly beneficial for you and that you're net worth is now over $25 million. You bought up to $315,000 worth of stock right before Donald Trump announced he would pause tariffs in April. For some reason, you got quite agitated in August when your net worth became public and you chose to go on a righteous rant on X, defending the amount as being from your family business alone. Not many people willingly choose to leave the perks that being a United States Congresswoman provides, but having $25 million in the bank when you get home certainly helps.

You go on to talk a lot about the psychological toll that being a congresswoman has had on you. The death threats, the lawsuits, the slander, the personal attacks. All that sounds horrible. Yet the only reason you became such a lightning rod is that you chose to be one. You made a name for yourself by verbally assaulting high schooler David Hogg before you even entered politics. During your first campaign, a series of offensive Islamophobic and racist social media posts emerged. One even went so far as to advocate for the assassination of Nancy Pelosi. Once elected to Congress, you put these social media posts into action. You claimed that Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's "fake eyelashes" were getting in the way of her understanding legislation at a public hearing in May of 2024. You immediately threatened transgender Congresswoman Sara McBride the moment she was elected to Congress last November. And let's not forget your history of antisemitic conspiracy theories, anything from Jewish space lasers causing the 2018 California wildfires to comparing wearing masks for public health to the Holocaust. Nobody deserves to be threatened, Marge, and it shouldn't take you personally experiencing threats to realize the kind of impact they can have on an individual and their family. 

So, no, you won't be getting my sympathy. You are not, nor will you ever be, welcome in my Democratic Party. You were a willing and/or useful idiot for Donald Trump and Republicans for the past five years. You suddenly care about your constituents' healthcare? Where have you been for the past 15 years, when your party has voted over 70 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a viable alternative? You're concerned about the skyrocketing cost of inflation? Then why did you and your entire party vote for the big, beautiful bill that cut taxes for the rich and nothing more? You're concerned about all the victims of Jeffrey Epstein? Then why are you remaining silent while your party refuses to investigate Ghislaine Maxwell for fear that she will plead the Fifth rather than answer questions? If you truly cared about your constituents' health and well-being, then you wouldn't be a Republican in the first place. But you know Republicans love the cuckoo bananas crazy type, so that is what you remain to this day. 

Go, Marge. Go off into the northwest Georgia sunset. Enjoy your government-funded pension for your years of service. Go back to the multimillion-dollar family business. If you get married a second time, try not to cheat on your husband like you did during your first marriage. Family values, amirite? You rode a wave of QAnon kooks into government in a way that is only possible in the United States. In any other country, you would have been run out of politics before you even began. But you made it, through intentional or manufactured looniness. Are you truly going to work to help people when there are no cameras around? Or are you going to retreat into a life of solitude, hoarding your riches, while finally getting away from all the attention that made you who you are and gave you a platform to be the most vile and hateful politicians in American history? 

I think we all know the answer to that one. 

Signed, 
An Exasperated Nation