Quo Vadis GOP?

[Tonitrus]

Speaking of MTG, she just quit Congress after Trump called her a traitor.     I don't understand the world anymore.

She made her millions. She is retiring the day after her pension kicks in.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

I don't think she'll get it for another 12 years, and for just 5 years of service, it'll probably be fairly modest (but may still be higher than mine ).

[Savonarola]

Speaking of MTG, she just quit Congress after Trump called her a traitor.     I don't understand the world anymore.

I'm not sure MTG puts much political calculus in anything she does, but I guess she wants to duck a nasty year for the GOP, and prime herself for the post-Trump years.

This is probably her best chance to cash in, as Valmy said she's eligible for her pension on January 5 and at the moment she's a media sensation (she's even been on The View) for defying Trump.  That's not going to last, so this is her best chance to join a cable news program or something along those lines.

[Tonitrus]

From what I can figure, it looks like the pension would be ~$1200-1300/month, but not until she is 62.

As Sav said, she'll rake in much more cash from the media circuit.  Heck, she'll likely have a show on Fox/OAN/some other fringe network in short order.

[Zoupa]

I think she's just predicting that the Trump era is coming to end. She'll run for something in 2028.

[Josquius]

Even if her aim is to be more of a POS than trump it is still encouraging that someone from The inner circle would feel secure enough to challenge the regime.

[Tonitrus]

Inner circle?  I don't think she was ever that.  More like "useful idiot".

[Razgovory]

She was Qanon.  The break with Trump was over the Epstein files.  She was a true believer in this, so didn't understand that Trump's promise to release the Epstein files was just a cynical manipulation of the credulous.  I don't know if she came to the conclusion that the Qanon stuff was a fraud or that Trump was a fraud.  Either way, reality seems to have broken her.