MTG’s Image Rehab Has a Big Problem: Her

Marjorie Taylor Greene really is trying to be a different person.

She’s closely aligned herself with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). She’s extricated herself from the so-called “sinners’ row”—the middle section of the House chamber where GOP castaways like her old friends Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) sit. And she’s committed herself to her newfound committee work, after McCarthy placed her on the Homeland Security Panel and the Oversight Committee.

And yet, as much as Greene fights it, she can’t help but create controversy. She can’t help but fall back into her old habits of divisive stunts and raucous rhetoric.

The new Marjorie Taylor Greene is looking a lot like the old Marjorie Taylor Greene—just with new friends, new responsibilities, and new power.