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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) drew backlash from both Democrats and Republicans after calling for a “national divorce” and suggesting conservatives need their own “safe space.” Greene, who has been talking up the idea of a “national divorce” since 2021, elaborated that she would like to see a “legal agreement to separate our ideological and political disagreements by states while maintaining our legal union.”
Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid argues Greene’s call to “return to a pre-Civil War America” is toxic, divisive, and part of a cynical fundraising strategy that helps her rake in the money.
Controversial opinion of the day: Marjorie Taylor Greene is an insane person who has no freaking business being in any kind of leadership role whatsoever. I mean, can you imagine her on the PTA? Yikes.
Anyway, the Georgia congresswoman decided that President’s Day presented the perfect opportunity to call for secession from the union, tweeting: “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.”
So she wants a return to pre-Civil War America. Cool. What’s confusing to me about this beyond the obvious — why is she a representative of the United States Congress when she very obviously isn’t a huge fan of the United States — is that Republicans have traditionally been the love-it-or leave-it party. You don’t like the way things are at home…fine, go away…but not anymore.
There is a significant contingent of the Republican Party that genuinely feels that Putin is preferable to Biden. I’m laughing but they believe that we should look to Russia for operational guidance — the Republican Party.
Also confusingly, Greene’s call for a “national divorce” begs the question: How does she see this working out for the red states — of which she is not actually a resident being as Georgia is blue? But…details.
