Perspective: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with high-school-cafeteria-style brutishness. Congressional decorum has been surrendered. To what? The incivility of social media and partisan trolling. To whom? The gentlelady in white.
That coat. It was not the first time she’s worn it. But it stood out in the neighborhood in which she sat, surrounded by men in dark suits and women in the occasional bursts of red and yellow. Its enormous fur collar framed her face like some kind of modern-dayand gave her presence heightened significance. She now sits on committees; she’s cozy with the new House speaker. She dressed up for her reinvention.
Greene kept the coat on for the speech. It was chilly in the room, and she was not the only person who didn’t shed their outerwear. But Greene, who regularly goeson the floor even when the room is cooled to suit jacket weather, had a look to keep intact. The coat matched the dress. She was swatting at style.
The ensemble also echoed the choices made by the Democratic women who wore white to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in 2020. They chose that color to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave white women the right to vote. They wore white to express solidarity, and to signal their outrage with the impeached Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was wearing white when she extended her hand to Trump, and he did not shake it.
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