CALL TO SPLIT U.S. UP
MTG: ‘Divorce’
Fresh off her own divorce, far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called Monday for a “national divorce” between the left and the right.
The lawmaker said it was time to divide the country along political lines, arguing that the differences between Republican and Democratic-leaning states have become irreconcilable.
“We need a national divorce,” Greene said in a Presidents Day tweet.
“We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone
I talk to says this,” added Greene.
“From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s [sic] traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
Greene (inset), 48, later clarified amid a social-media uproar that a “national divorce” doesn’t mean “civil war,” and argued that President Biden is the one leading the country “into WW3.”
“People are absolutely fed up and disgusted with left wing insanity and disaster America Last policies. National divorce is not civil war, but Biden and the neocons are leading us into WW3, while forcing corporate ESG and gender confusion on our kids. Enough!” Greene tweeted.
She later tripled down in response to a tweet by President Biden about his surprise visit to Ukraine earlier Monday, saying: “Impeach Biden or give us a national divorce. We don’t pay taxes to fund foreign country’s [sic] wars who aren’t even NATO ally’s [sic]. We aren’t sending our sons & daughters to dies [sic] for foreign borders & foreign ‘democracy.’ America is BROKE. Criminals & Cartels reign. And you’re a fool.”
It’s unclear which side Greene’s home state of Georgia would better fit in with if a breakup were to happen. The Peach State went for Biden in the 2020 election and has two Democrats representing it in the Senate, but Republicans control the governor’s mansion and the state Legislature.
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox blasted Greene over the tweet.
“This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and — honestly — evil. We don’t need a divorce, we need marriage counseling. And we need elected leaders that don’t profit by tearing us apart. We can disagree without hate. Healthy conflict was critical to our nation’s founding and survival,” Cox wrote on Twitter.
“Great idea,” National Review editor Rich Lowry reacted sarcastically to Greene. “So who gets control of the 1.3 million-strong U.S. military and the stockpile of 3,800 nuclear warheads?”
“You are a danger to the country and you only want to divide us,” fired back Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).
“You are literally calling for secession, which is pretty on-brand for traitors like you.”
Greene’s husband, Perry Greene, filed for divorce in September after 27 years of marriage, she confirmed to The Post at the time.