The Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is used to delivering shocks to American politics, mainly to her Democratic and liberal opponents who have long seen her as a rightwing firebrand, but latterly to her own side as she rebelled against Donald Trump over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Her dramatic announcement of her resignation on Friday was a typical act: out of the blue, full of punchy language and rage and – mostly – unexpected by people on both sides of the political aisle.
