Opinion | The Marjorie Taylor Greene VP rumors are a frog-in-boiling-water moment

MAGA firebrand and serial conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is rumored to be angling for the position of Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in the 2024 election. Whether that’s remotely likely is hard to say at this point. But the fact that at least some figures on the right see it as plausible speaks to the catastrophic state of the GOP’s establishment politics today.

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who has hosted Greene on his show, says she “sees herself on the short list for Trump’s VP.” A source with ties to Trump and Greene told NBC News that her “whole vision is to be vice president” — and that he believes she would be on Trump’s VP short list. Greene apparently sees herself as a bridge between the Republican establishment and the party’s hardcore activist wing, sources told NBC.