Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday issued a tweet calling for a "national divorce," dividing "red states and blue states" into separate nations. According to Greene, this great separation is necessary due to "the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats and the Democrat's [sic] traitorous America last policies." The lawmaker insisted that her views are quite common: "Everyone I talk to says this."
Greene has floated this idea before, and she is hardly the first person to suggest a national split. Intense partisan polarization has been a defining feature of American politics for years. And, for the last several months, supporters of Donald Trump have...
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Originally published by at rooneycenter.nd.edu on March 07, 2023.