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Not so long ago, Matt Gaetz and Majorie Taylor Greene would have considered themselves rebels-in-arms.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, the pair of election deniers claimed they were being cancelled, not just by the political mainstream, but their own party.
They even embarked on a political roadshow and spoke at venues such as The Villages retirement community north of Orlando. Their audience, in theory, was the glad-to-have-them residents, who have long leaned conservative.
In truth, the speeches they delivered were aimed at one Florida retiree in particular – Trump himself, then still nursing his wounds at Mar-a-Lago.
“I’m a marked man in Congress,” Gaetz said at one appearance in May 2021. Greene, who had been kicked off…
