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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mona Charen

There’s no sanitizing the toxic Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene takes a photo with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy after he was elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 7. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

During one of Kevin McCarthy’s gauntlet of punishing votes for Speaker of the House, it was striking to see with whom he passed the time. There she was, dressed in sophisticated black, the member hailed as a “key ally” to the new speaker: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.    

Her choice of color (in the past she has donned stark reds, whites or blues — get it?) is perhaps a signal of the new Greene — a mainstream figure, a serious politician. Her status was signaled by a respectful, not to say softball interview with Howard Kurtz on Fox News.    

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