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Republicans had their chance to bench the conspiracy-theory-spouting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
But they didn t because while QAnon is fading, conspiracy theorists are now part of the GOP base.
Greene lost her House committee assignments, but her apology-free speech showed her GOP standing.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a victory speech to the House on Thursday.
Greene, a day after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declined to preemptively boot her from assignments on two committees, gave a defiant address on the House floor prior to a vote on whether to advance another vote to force her off of those assignments. Greene claimed to have moved on from her support of vile anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, demonstrable Islamophobia, violent political rhetoric, 9/11 and school-shooting trutherism, and of course QAnon.
In an op-ed plastered across Monday’s
New York Post front page, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) calls for an end to the “muzzling of America.” Despite getting a spot on the front page of the fourth-largest newspaper in the U.S., coverage across the entire Fox News lineup, a new book deal, an audience of more than half a million followers on Twitter, and a lengthy list of credits on IMDB, Hawley would like you to believe that he is a man without a voice.
Hawley’s essay makes a now-familiar argument against so-called “cancel culture,” which naturally, came for him all because he tried to invalidate the votes of millions of Americans and maybe, sorta, kinda helped incite a deadly mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. Who among us hasn’t had a brush with insurrection at one point or another?