None So Blind

...as those who will not see.

It’s the perfect depiction of MAGA’s desperate, unrequited adoration for its market-motivated messiah. As the fawning MAGA crowd waits impatiently behind the fence, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene stands on the privileged side of the temporary barrier, clapping adoringly while watching her monarch de-board Trump Force One and walk right past her without so much as an acknowledging nod.

Greene’s slumped shoulders and pitiful frown clearly convey her sorrow over being disregarded by her idol. But she soldiers on, choosing resolute loyalty to her tribe and its imperious chief over logic and clarity.

Trump didn’t ignore Greene because she was obscured among the sea of faces in the groveling throng of worshipers. She stood alone, outside the fence, clearly visible beyond the MAGA riffraff. No, he ignored her because, at the moment, she had nothing of value to him. He snubbed her because she represented no immediate profit for him.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, for all her steadfast devotion, is to Trump a mere prop. In that, despite her privileged proximity, Greene is no different from the many anonymous nonentities paying homage to their redeemer-in-chief as he feigns an interest in them that to non-cultists is obviously insincere.

But a powerful cult clouds the vision of its adherents; they choose not to see. So then they cannot see, and recovery of their sight requires the near-miraculous admission of their blindness. A few of those miracles are occurring as fringe MAGAites see the sorrowful results of their misguided choices. But the truly faithful—primarily White evangelical nationalists—cling faithfully to their new messiah, despite any real evidence of his interest in them.

After all, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and the deluded White evangelicals she represents will continue to overlook being overlooked by their transactional messiah, and he will continue to merchandise their unwavering support based on their willful blindness to his abuse.