Trump's in trouble as Maga queries what the future holds

There is something truly delicious about sitting on the sidelines and watching a really good epic political spat.

- JON SOPEL

It warms the cockles. And the falling-out between Donald Trump and the conspiracy-loving, fire-breathing, Maga ultra, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has not disappointed.

In an age marked by utter obsequiousness, Taylor Greene has taken the fight to Trump. And the name-calling has been fabulous. He now calls her Marjorie Traitor Greene; she says he's put her life at risk.

If the late, great Tony Benn were alive, he would say politics is about policies, not personalities. I always thought that when he was in his fight with Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party back in the early 1980s, it was a remarkably po-faced response. And so much of politics in the US today is about the personality of Trump. It has been for a decade.

But actually, in relation to the Trump/MTG mega-tiff, Benn's maxim is right. This is about policy. Sure, the fight is between two combustible personalities, but there are some big issues at stake here. And they have the potential to tear the Make America Great Again movement apart.

It has left the president seething. His view is that Maga is whatever he says it is. It's not for other people to decide. Say it quietly, it is almost Dr Frankenstein losing control of his monster - and if he has lost control, then is he no longer the all-powerful president we have hitherto thought? Even, perish the thought, a little bit lame?