Marjorie Taylor Greene was born and raised in Milledgeville, once the capital of Georgia with public squares built to imitate Washington, D.C. It is rich in culture and arts and filled with historic architecture and landmarks. It is also a college town with the ethnic makeup of 48% White and 43% Black, a good ground for Progressivism. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
With such a background, MTG could have been a Progressive. Instead, she has become an ultra-conservative firebrand, making outlandish statements, many of them seem contrived, intended to catch attention or get credentials. She succeeded hugely in catching the attention of MAGA, and became a political star in the ultra-conservative movement. She got plenty of chances to sit at the table with MAGA big shots.
Some time in 2023 or 2024, she started going against MAGA and the president himself, saying that she never owed him anything. Then, she resigned from Congress in November 2025.
Many speculate that she positions herself to run for the U.S. Senate.
Probably.
But the fact is clear: she breaks with MAGA and Donald J. Trump. For such a colorful and energetic character as Ms. Greene, any direction she plunges ahead is a possibility. And there is one possibility worth consideration, a hypothetical one.
In one of those chances that she was sitting at a table with MAGA’s big shots, they talked past her to one another as if she was not there. Not once, they included her in the conversation. Those pretentious, obnoxious, chauvinistic men just ignored her. She was a member of Congress, but they did not consider her as a member of their club, which had been an exclusive one for white men only. She was one of, and among, important people in the room but felt alone.
And her mind wandered.
These men created a religion named after Him, which was based exclusively on His teachings; they had relied on His wisdom and been guided by Him through every step in their lives. At dinner time, they and their families, commanded by them, solemnly and humbly said thanks to Him before eating. But for more than two millennia, they had steadfastly and at times violently refused to admit His people into their club, why was she so naïve to think that they would admit her into theirs?
Suddenly she realized that she was a woman.
Biologically and anatomically, half of His people were more similar to them than she was. She was way different. She was a woman that means fetch me a beer. The difference was drastic. Wasn’t difference the basis and reason of their discrimination?
She had learned a lesson, or rather a truth. She decided to resign from Congress to show her independence and determination. Running for the Senate, or the Georgia governorship, or even a street corner groceries store, she would not beg them for help. If they did want to help, it would have to be on her own terms. She declared she owed the president nothing. That went without saying that she owed MAGA nothing. She would fight to prove her own worth. She would fight to show that she was an equal of men whether they accepted her or not.
And whether she realized it or not, MTG had become a feminist.
Gloria Steinem, give her a call immediately.
JOHN P. LE PHONG (This article appears on X, thelephongjournal.com, and Facebook)
