Should Congress Expel Its Most Terrible Members?

Eric Medlin
3 min readFeb 3, 2021

It should. Here’s why it won’t.

Congress meeting in a joint session. Source: Time

The end of the Donald Trump administration brought with it a pair of new representatives who best embodied his paranoid outlook on the American political system. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado) both caused scandal when they won their 2020 primaries in deep red districts. Greene drew the most attention. She is a proud…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites