The former president, she said, had personally invited her to the rally and, schedule permitting, she planned to attend his upcoming events across the country this summer. But, on our chat home, she explained just how central she is set to become in the Trump comeback narrative. A resume like that would, in past times, relegate her to the fringes of her party. That includes Greene, a freshman congresswoman from exurban Atlanta and self-described QAnon repentant who - just six months in office - has managed to get expelled from her committees and nearly censured for comparing mask-wearing to the Holocaust. The crowds are more frenzied, the conspiracies more fantastical, the cast of characters more outlandish. Where once his supporters were hopeful, they now seemed aggrieved. Trump’s reemergence on the political scene is promising to spark a seismic disruption to America’s political system bigger than the one he caused when he came down his gilded escalator six years ago. But it seemed oddly appropriate given the moment. My days aren’t normally quite this … unusual. “Oh?” Greene perked up, before quickly deflating when I informed her I was a reporter.
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