MTG is not stupid. She’s manipulative, knows how to sway a crowd, knows how to read the room. She’s incredibly intelligent, just for the other side. Her own self-preservation instict is kicking in and she’s quickly realizing that her rich constituents not only do not care about her success, but that her working-class constituents aren’t taking Trump’s abuse lying down.

Everyone says she’s a rat leaving a sinking ship, and that may be true, but it is the correct play in her position.