Marjorie Taylor Greene 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/15/2021
Jews Fear what Follows after Republicans Applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene
by Deborah Lipstadt
"Having spent decades studying, teaching, researching and fighting antisemitism, Greene’s claims were familiar territory. All of them – space lasers, 9/11, school shootings, Trump’s election loss and so much else – shared a common theme: conspiracy."
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/5/2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Knows Exactly What She's Doing
by Jamelle Bouie
Historians Lisa McGirr, Sara Diamond, and Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld argue that the Republican Party has always had to keep a porous border between itself and the hard right groups who led its activist base since the Goldwater years. The borders today seem to be dissolving.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/6/2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene is Just the Latest Radical White Woman Poisoning Politics
by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
White women have been active participants in creating and advancing the politics of white supremacy and eliminationist conspiracy theorizing. Marjorie Taylor Greene's antics are nothing new.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/6/2021
History Reveals the Danger of Republicans Indulging Marjorie Taylor Greene
by Austin Nicholson
Allowing Marjorie Taylor Greene to accrue seniority and committee leadership will bring her dangerous, conspiratorial and bigoted thinking into the mainstream of policymaking.
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2/4/2021
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marjorie?
The House of Representatives has voted, mostly on party lines, to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments in response to her statements endorsing the Capitol riots and conspiracy theories that school shootings were hoaxes and California wildfires were started by the Rothschild banking family using space lasers.
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SOURCE: Slate
2/3/2021
The GOP’s Bolshevik Moment
by Fred Kaplan
Alexander Kerensky's tenure as Russia's only prime minister between the overthrow of the Czar and the Bolshevik takeover was cut short in part because he viewed Lenin as an ally against his monarchist enemies. Republican Party leaders risk the same fate if they accept the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene as allies against Joe Biden.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/28/2021
Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Vile New Antics Highlight A 50-Year GOP Story
Washington Post Political Columnist Greg Sargent says that Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiratorial bigotry reflects a historical problem with the Republican Party: the porous boundary between the mainstream and the extremist fringe. But that boundary is weaker than ever today.
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