Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been accused of calling for civil conflict in a Presidents Day tweet.
“We’d like a countrywide divorce,” the extremist Republican tweeted. “We wish to separate by means of purple states and blue states and shrink the federal goverrnment. Everybody I communicate to says this. From the in poor health and disgusting woke tradition problems shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous The united states Final insurance policies, we’re executed.”
It’s now not the primary time Greene, who vocally supported the Jan. 6, 2021, rebellion at the U.S. Capitol, has floated the speculation of secession. In October 2021, she polled her Twitter fans on whether or not they concept the U.S. must “have a countrywide divorce.” She used to be in a similar fashion condemned on the time.
Civil conflict broke out within the U.S. within the 1860s, after an alliance of southern states seceded so to proceed the felony enslavement of Black folks.
Monday’s tweet attracted backlash from each side of the political aisle. Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox slammed her rhetoric as “harmful and unsuitable and — truthfully— evil.”
“We don’t desire a divorce, we want marriage counseling. And we want elected leaders that don’t benefit by means of tearing us aside,” Cox tweeted. “We will be able to disagree with out hate. Wholesome battle used to be important to our country’s founding and survival.”
Sharing Greene’s tweet, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) famous that “secession is unconstitutional” and no member of Congress must suggest for it.
Democrats, together with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), additionally denounced Greene’s rhetoric.
Others categorized the missive treasonous and traitorous. See one of the crucial different reactions underneath.