Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lunatic case to oust Speaker Mike Johnson

The first time Republicans toppled their own speaker during this Congress, it wasn’t a particularly edifying spectacle, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is reaching for new lows.

To paraphrase Marx: First as a farce, then as a more preposterous farce.

Greene made her anti-Mike Johnson case on Tucker Carlson’s show last week, and it was — as you’d expect — a stew of conspiratorial thinking and sophomoric ranting.

You might say the anti-Johnson forces aren’t sending their best, but such is the weakness of their case that MTG is the best they’ve got.

There’s a serious case against funding Ukraine, based on the scarcity of our matériel and the geostrategic preeminence of Asia over Europe, but Greene and her friendly and encouraging interlocutor didn’t come within a hundred miles of it.

Greene complained that in the space of a couple months, Johnson has gone from a good Christian conservative to being indistinguishable from Nancy Pelosi.