Politicians on both ends of the aisle chastised Greene for her statements.
Earlier this week, controversial Georgia Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Green appeared on an interview with The Washington Examiner, where she gave an extreme statement on the political divide in the United States. Greene suggested a “national divorce,” that the country should be forcefully divided into red states and blue states, and that the only alternative to this proposition would be a full-scale Civil War.
Liz Cheney felt the need to educate Marjorie Taylor Greene about her Oath of Office, after MTG made a clownish proposition, flippantly calling for a national divorce between Red States and Blue States. pic.twitter.com/AXkDoHW0ql
— Tony – Resistance (@TonyHussein4) February 21, 2023
These extreme statements have drawn widespread condemnation from not only Democratic politicians and lawmakers, but Greene’s own fellow Republicans, who have called her out for a decidedly un-American ideology.
“I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity,” Utah Senator Mitt Romney said at a press conference. “We’re not going to divide the country. It’s united we stand and divided we fall.”
“This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and—honestly—evil,” tweeted Utah Governor Spencer Cox. “We don’t need a divorce, we need marriage counseling. And we need elected leaders that don’t profit by tearing us apart. We can disagree without hate. Healthy conflict was critical to our nation’s founding and survival.”
Sen. Romney blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's call for a national divorce:
"I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity. We're not going to divide the country. It's united we stand and divided we fall." h/t @sltrib: pic.twitter.com/oiOQ7osr3J
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) February 22, 2023
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Tommy Garcia urged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to rein in Greene’s incendiary rhetoric. “Kevin McCarthy’s shameful silence on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s divisive calls for secession of states sends a dangerous message to conspiracy theorists and anarchists,” he said in a statement. “Apparently, upholding and defending the Constitution is merely a suggestion to the House Republican party.”
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