“I don’t care what occupation you have in life,” Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker of the House, told me recently. “When people know you by a three-letter acronym, you’ve really built a following.” Even before entering Congress, Greene gained notoriety for espousing various conspiracy theories: that the Rothschilds had used solar generators in space that triggered wildfires, and that a cabal of liberal élites was eating the flesh of children. After joining Congress, she called Democrats “the party of pedophiles,” and, as some Americans fretted over the possibility of an impending civil war, she demanded a “national divorce.” John Cowan, a neurosurgeon in northwest Georgia whom Greene beat for the Republican nomination in her district, has called her Empty G, a homophone for her initials which captures a persistent belief in her vacuity.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter