Cheney blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's call for a ‘national divorce’ between liberal and conservative states
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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.
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.
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.