America has never before seen a year like 2021 in the House of Representatives, and not only because of the Jan. 6 incident. Early in February, Republicans warned Democrats that dire consequences would follow their unprecedented decision to remove newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from two committee assignments as punishment for statements she made in years past. “I think you are, frankly, overlooking the unprecedented nature of the acts that you’ve decided upon, and where that may lead us when the majority changes,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), senior GOP member of the House Rules Committee, of the 230–199 vote in which a handful of Republicans joined all Democrats in condemning Greene. Democrats claimed Greene had encouraged political violence and spread groundless conspiracy theories about school shootings and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Georgia Republican had previously disavowed some of the statements and did so of others …