Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been accused of calling for civil battle in a Presidents Day tweet.
“We’d like a nationwide divorce,” the extremist Republican tweeted. “We have to separate by purple states and blue states and shrink the federal goverrnment. Everybody I discuss to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke tradition points shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Final insurance policies, we’re accomplished.”
It’s not the first time Greene, who vocally supported the Jan. 6, 2021, revolt on the U.S. Capitol, has floated the thought of secession. In October 2021, she polled her Twitter followers on whether or not they thought the U.S. ought to “have a nationwide divorce.” She was equally condemned on the time.
Civil battle broke out within the U.S. within the 1860s, after an alliance of southern states seceded in an effort to proceed the authorized enslavement of Black individuals.
Monday’s tweet attracted backlash from each side of the political aisle. Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox slammed her rhetoric as “harmful and incorrect and — actually— evil.”
“We don’t want a divorce, we’d like marriage counseling. And we’d like elected leaders that don’t revenue by tearing us aside,” Cox tweeted. “We will disagree with out hate. Wholesome battle was crucial to our nation’s founding and survival.”
Sharing Greene’s tweet, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) famous that “secession is unconstitutional” and no member of Congress ought to advocate for it.
Democrats, together with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), additionally denounced Greene’s rhetoric.
Others labeled the missive treasonous and traitorous. See a few of the different reactions under.