The New Year Quote by Marjorie Taylor Greene

Greene’s threat to “introduc[e] a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters” is less a serious legislative maneuver than a carefully engineered performance of authority. Expulsion is an extreme sanction Congress almost never uses; invoking it lets Greene signal maximum moral urgency while sidestepping the messier work of proving a case. The line is built for headlines and fundraising emails, not committee rooms.

The phrase “continual incitement of violence” does two jobs at once. First, it reframes partisan conflict as public safety, moving Waters from “opponent” to “danger.” Second, it appropriates the language that has dogged Republicans since January 6 and turns it outward: the subtext is, you don’t get to call us the violent party; we can make that charge stick to you. It’s rhetorical jiu-jitsu, weaponizing the norms of accountability without accepting them.

Context matters: Waters has long been a conservative villain, especially after comments urging public confrontation of Trump officials. Greene’s choice to resurrect that controversy now is about control of the narrative in an era where “incitement” is a political keyword with real legal and cultural weight. The threat of expulsion becomes a proxy trial over who gets to define legitimate protest versus dangerous agitation.

And there’s a final tell in the construction: “I’ll be introducing” centers Greene, not the institution. The point is visibility and factional loyalty. Even if the resolution dies instantly, the accusation lives on, doing what it’s designed to do: harden tribes, launder outrage into procedure, and keep politics pitched at the volume of emergency.