I feel like rube based entirely on vibes, but I don't spend a lot of time reading up on or thinking about MTG so if anyone challenges me on that I'm preemptively conceding the argument.

I used to live near her district and she was going 100% until she fell out with Trump. I can't see her being anything other than a grifter unless she had the world's biggest change of heart.

if she was grifter she would be shmoozing with Trump in the white house right now. I think she's a true believer because she bombed her own career because she couldn't tolerate her boss being a pedophile hypocrite. Got to hand it to her unfortunately.

In the world of cults, grifter-rubes high on their own supply are not an uncommon sight.

Seems like a mix of both. I don’t think her politics are an act to get that right wing propaganda money, she seems earnest. But she also seems opportunistic, and sees that there’s cracks forming in the MAGA coalition. So she’s positioning herself to be a main voice in the post-Trump, drain the swamp of the people who said they’d drain the swamp conservative sphere.