The Republican Party’s embrace of Donald Trump may have proven to be a Faustian bargain, but it was indeed an exchange. Sure, the GOP had to lose the moral high ground on issues ranging from sexual misconduct to corruption, but the former president had an actual set of policies (love them or hate them) to advance a coherent ideology. Maybe you think taking the deranged tweets, the storming of the Capitol, the winks and nods toward QAnon and the alt-right, and losing both chambers of Congress was worth getting the Abraham Accords disempowering Iran, a generation of originalist judges confirmed across the federal judiciary, landmark criminal justice reform, and transformational tax reform. Maybe you don’t. But there was a bargain, even if you believe it was a bad one.

Unlike Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene brings nothing to the table for Republicans except a whole lot of trouble. The QAnon-supporting congresswoman from Georgia has expressed quite a lot of other conspiracy theories about 9/11 trutherism, the Parkland, Florida, shooting being a false flag operation, and anti-Semitism, including blaming California wildfires on a secret Jewish laser beam in space. What she has not expressed is any sort of coherent policy agenda past promulgating the lie that the presidential election was stolen from Trump and trying to impeach President Biden because reasons.