Democracy Dies in Darkness

Marjorie Taylor Greene would like to remind us that she is not serious

Analysis by
National columnist
April 18, 2024 at 10:43 a.m. EDT
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) make their way to a House Republican conference meeting last week. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
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As recently as last month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was still sensitive about the whole “Jewish space lasers” thing.

You may recall — who are we kidding, you do recall — that, soon after she was first elected to the House in 2020, Media Matters uncovered a 2018 Facebook post in which Greene theorized that a massive California wildfire had been sparked by a “laser beam or a light beam” being sent down from space as PG&E (and its Rothschild-connected leadership) sought a cleaner form of energy or to build a high-speed train or both. It was, in short, convoluted, in the way that making up nonsense tends to be.