Trump’s supporting cast onstage included Loeffler, her fellow Republican senator David Perdue, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, the loony-tunes local congressional candidate and QAnon enthusiast whose long history of racist, anti-Semitic, and generally harassing conduct made her an incendiary character long before she ever arrived in Washington. And yes, you knew she would arrive in Washington soon enough, as surely as her campaign would run up a tab of $717.30 for meals at the Trump Hotel a few days after her election.

