Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Midterm Bombshell: GOP Is Toast

Sargent: Just presuming for now that there’s a pretty decisive Democratic win—next year, Donald Trump is a lame duck. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s prediction about MAGA cracking up and scattering and splintering will have come true. I don’t think we’re prepared for how weak and disorganized MAGA might look at that point. Can you talk about that?

Heffernan: I mean, yeah, right. What are they going to do when he’s impeached every day, as Ted Cruz once said would happen? I don’t know.

Sargent: Yeah, when he faces, like, serious oversight, and he’s just, like, this, you know, raging figure who’s kind of tied down by Democrats in Congress, at least to some degree. Obviously, he’s going to abuse his powers in all sorts of horrible ways, but it will be trench warfare more than mighty Trump ruling over his domain, right? And so he’ll look weak, and he’ll look constrained, and he’ll look like he’s struggling, and people will be talking about JD Vance and what’s next. And I think MAGA will look really kind of disorganized and shattered at that point, is my prediction.