Jonathan Freedland and Joan E Greve look at what it might take for the Republican leadership to properly punish Marjorie Taylor Greene for the outrageous and offensive comments she continues to make
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In May Democrats and Republicans condemned Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments comparing Covid face mask mandates to Jewish people being forced to wear a yellow star during the Holocaust.
Republicans stopped short of punishing the far-right Georgia congresswoman, though, unlike their decision to oust the veteran party member Liz Cheney from her House leadership position. Cheney was voted out because she continued to publicly reject Donald Trump’s lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election, and because she had voted to impeach Trump over his role in the 6 January insurrection.
So why were these women treated so differently?
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