Greene calls for ‘national divorce’ of red, blue states

Breaking up by text is considered bad form. Tweeting demands for a “national divorce” may be an even sharper violation of etiquette.

That didn’t stop U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome. She made the call for the big split on Presidents Day, writing:

“We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s (sic) traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”

Democrats and centrist Republicans, such as former U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and former GOP Chairman Michael Steele, were quick to criticize Greene.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, issued one of the strongest rebukes, writing: “This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and — honestly — evil.”

Greene fired back at critics, trying to make a distinction between her suggestion to divide the country and a call for civil war. But she also tweeted that the nation has “tragically” reached the point of “irreconcilable differences,” and then she promoted her theories on what red states could accomplish on their own.

How to make a divorce work for a nation of 330 million people and nearly as many political opinions is a question that just leads to other questions.

For one, where does Georgia fall? Greene’s home state has two Democratic U.S. senators, and it voted for Joe Biden as president in 2020. That makes for an odd shade of red.

And what about one of Greene’s biggest benefactors, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who gave her choice assignments to the House Oversight and Homeland Security committees? He’s from California, which would be best represented by one of the darker hues of blue. Who gets McCarthy in a divorce?

The nation is also more than the states. The District of Columbia fits well with blue states, but what about the territories, such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands?

Who would get weekends with Guam?