REVEALED: Lauren Boebert and Marge Greene Don’t Get Along, Almost Got Into A Cat Fight

This is not the least bit surprising. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are known as the Twin Trolls, the two moronic bookends to one another, in the Republican party. While they may join forces to disgrace themselves in public —  I give you the State Of The Union address as Exhibit “A” — it turns out that they don’t like each other. In fact, they had to be separated at one point. Politico:

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert look from the outside like MAGA twins, both loathed by Democrats for their incendiary right-wing rhetoric. But inside the House GOP, they’re not quite buddy-buddy.

Privately, Republicans say Boebert (R-Colo.) — who’s seen as more of a party team player than Greene — detests being tied to her Georgia colleague. And when the House Freedom Caucus board of directors gathered last month at its usual spot a few blocks from the Capitol, the two tangled over Greene’s appearance at a February event organized by a known white nationalist.

Their confrontation grew so heated that at least one onlooker feared the Greene-Boebert back-and-forth might escalate beyond the verbal cage match had another board member not stepped in to de-escalate, according to a GOP lawmaker who was granted anonymity to describe what happened. The incident was confirmed by three people connected to the Freedom Caucus, whose members largely avoided public criticism of Greene and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) at the time and focused their discontent on the event organizer, Nick Fuentes.

The run-in between Greene and Boebert is a microcosm of a bigger identity crisis that’s starting to take hold within the Freedom Caucus. A group founded with right-leaning policy ambition that later became a Donald Trump defense team is starting to split in important ways, from how to respond to this week’s Kevin McCarthy tapes to — more fundamentally — whether to reorient itself back to its limited-government roots.

“We need to reevaluate where we’re heading,” Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.), a current but less active group member, said in an interview. “I like the principles that the Freedom Caucus was founded on, but I think that if we can’t work together as a group and push our ideas in a civil manner, then we’re not going to be very effective.”

Civility has never been that group’s strong suit. They plagued both John Boehner and Paul Ryan and that was in a day and age when things weren’t entirely crazed like they have been since 2016. But it all makes sense. The GOP has no identity these days. If it did have an identity and a fixed set of policies and a platform the likes of the Greene/Boebert circus acts would not be tolerated. The performative jackassery is tolerated solely because there’s a vacuum of leadership in the GOP and the base must be kept entertained.