Cheney blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's call for a ‘national divorce’ between liberal and conservative states
NBCDec 23, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Green Criticized Over "National Divorce" Tweets
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The Facts
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is facing backlash following a Monday tweet in which she stated that due to the "sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done," and that she believes the US should "separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government."
In response, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told Greene that such a measure would violate the "oath to support and defend the Constitution" that Greene swore when becoming a congresswoman.
The Spin
Republican narrative
This isn't the treasonous act some are portraying it to be, but it is more evidence that Marjorie Taylor Greene could use a break from social media. The congresswoman's bombastic Tweet, though amusing, is implausible given the geography of the US. The liberal elites are on opposite coasts, and even within the midwestern and southern states, there are dark blue cities and dark red outskirts. Greene should log out of Twitter for a while and focus on legislating rather than map drawing.
Democratic narrative
Marjorie Taylor Greene represents a radical faction of the GOP that is growing quicker than one might imagine. Though an actual national divorce is implausible, the sentiment behind it is very real, very dangerous, and can spread like wildfire within the far-right political sphere. The last time members of congress from Georgia wanted a "national divorce," the US lost 600K lives in the Civil War.
Libertarian narrative
Though no one quite knows how it would be accomplished, there is nothing wrong with contemplating the idea of a national divorce. When Trump was in office it was the left talking about California and New York seceding, and now with Biden as president, it's the other way around. The US was created to be a union and even expanded under that shared unity, but today is a different story. It would not necessarily be a bad thing if someone found a way to divorce peacefully. This is simply about freedom and self-determination.
