'National divorce': Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Trump dissenters with secession
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeated her demand that America gets a divorce.
An outraged Greene (R-GA) on Monday urged a national split from Democratic states whose lawmakers, and voters, have expressed criticism of President-elect Donald Trump.
"I’m still in favor of a national divorce if need be," Greene wrote. "If Democrat governors plan to commit treason against our President and the majority of Americans then let them destroy their own states."
Greene did not name names, but several Democratic governors have reportedly launched efforts to protect their states from Trump policies.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called a special state legislature session to discuss “Trump-proofing” his state and has traveled to Washington D.C. to ask for President Joe Biden’s support, the Washington Post reported Monday morning.
"We need to prepare ourselves firmly and plant our feet in case we get swept away," Newsom told Californians earlier this month. "We're going to have your back."
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Governors of Illinois and Colorado last week formed a coalition to protect state-level institutions from authoritarianism and a president who vowed to govern as a dictator on “day one," the Guardian reported over the weekend.
“Hope alone won’t save our democracy,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said as he announced the formation of Governors Safeguarding Democracy. “We need to work together, especially at the state level, to protect and strengthen it.”
Greene on Monday described these actions as a threat against Trump's "mandate."
That mandate calls for actions Democratic states must accept, Greene argued, such as the mass deportation of "illegal invaders" and preventing trans children from playing sports.
"No one will want to live there," Greene predicted of post-"divorce" blue states. "And after years of being attacked by the deranged left, most of us are so sick of their crap."
Greene has made several calls for a "national divorce" in the past, arguing that the left and right have reached "irreconcilable differences." She has claimed this could be done without mass violence, though critics have called it a euphemism for civil war.