interesting, because you talk about people who remember her or don t remember her growing up, her teachers, they don t remember her as someone who was political as you mentioned a moment ago, somebody who was outspoken and wanted to be, on the front lines of shaping policy in this country, but you say she was looking for an identity, did you get a sense of whether she believes some of the stuff that she spouts, some of these conspiracy theories? i think that at the beginning, she was certainly drawn in by them, as i said, i think that she has explained before that the russia collusion narrative early on quote-unquote gave her a promotion structure basically to believe in things like q-anon and that the clintons were, you know, running a ring of pedophilia in the basement of a washington, d.c. pizza restaurant, which is of course, you know, quite an explanation for it, but to answer your question more pointedly, i would say that as much as she was kinds of roped
the latest piece why is she like this . why is marjorie taylor greene like this, alaina? well, first, thank you you for having me, katy and one of the reasons i wanted to do this piece, because as much as congressman green has been written about, i feel like there hasn t been sort of a deep dive into her origin story, and what i hoped, you know, reporting and writing on a piece like this might provide is some instructive blueprint of sorts to kind of understand how her brand of politician sort of sprouted up into the trump republican party and i would say that the primary reason why she is the way she is, and why there very well are several more politicians, or would-be politicians like her in america today, is the ease with which it is to be sucked into conspiracy theories like q-anon today. marjorie taylor, for instance,