By Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone dot org.

Everyone talks about this place [Washington DC] being a dadgum swamp. It's not a swamp. A swamp is something cool, God created. It filters water, animal life flourishes around it. This is a sewer. It's created by man. And it needs to stop.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)

Sincerity is, by far, the most dangerous quality in Washington.

Tucker Carlson

On Friday, November 21, 2025, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced that she will resign from Congress in January. Her resignation statement is an important document that will have political influence in the near term and historical importance in the long term. Given the perilous state of our country at present, a detailed reading of Greene's statement is extremely valuable.

A resignation from Congress, in itself, is neither noteworthy or unusual. Members of Congress resign with some frequency. According to the website FiveThirtyEight, 615 members of Congress resigned or were removed from office between 1901 and 2018, for a wide variety of reasons.

According to FiveThirtyEight's research, the most likely reason for leaving Congress mid-term is appointment or election to another government position. Changes in pension laws caused a large but temporary spike in the 1970s. Leaving for lucrative private sector jobs has recently become more common, and sex scandal-based resignations have increased as well in recent years. However, "three percent of departures stem from unique circumstances that don't fit into any other category."

Marjorie Taylor Greene's stated reasons for her resignation do not just defy categorization. Her statement also describes in detail for ordinary Americans the Sewer that is Washington, DC: a place of pervasive corruption and endless lies, psychological operations, blackmail, death threats, and assassinations.

It describes how the Sewer appears to have bogged down and affected its great adversary, President Donald Trump. It hints at a path forward for individual Americans and for the nation as a whole. It does so from the point of view of a person who has learned these lessons the hard way - by descending into the Sewer herself, enduring it as long as she could, and getting out to tell the tale.

For her troubles, Greene has suffered derision and innuendo from all sides, ranging from Bush family acolyte and never-Trumper David Frum to Trump TV apologist Scott Jennings. Her own explanation is disregarded by these critics. But if flak indicates being over the target, then Greene must be on to something.

A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations

Greene begins her statement by describing Washington, DC's utter contempt for the average American. She describes elections as a recurrent uniparty psyop where "Americans are used by the political-industrial complex of both political parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more."

She recites a litany of offenses by the Federal Government against its own citizens. While Greene is no Thomas Jefferson as a writer, her list echoes the Declaration of Independence:

…nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman. The debt goes higher.

Corporate and global interests remain Washington's sweethearts. American jobs continue to be replaced, whether it's by illegal labor or legal labor by visas, or just shipped overseas. Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations.

Americans' hard-earned tax dollars always fund foreign wars, foreign aid, and foreign interests. And the spending power of the dollar continues to decline. The average American family can no longer survive on a single breadwinner's income, as both parents have to work in order to simply survive.

In other words, Greene describes:

Unsustainable, ever-increasing national debt.

Corporate capture of Government.

Globalist infiltration of Government.

Mass-scale job replacement.

Economic outsourcing.

Destruction ...