Marjorie Taylor Greene defends comment calling for a 'national divorce': 'Necessary reality'

Jack Birle

February 22, 01:32 PM February 22, 01:33 PM

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defended her calls for a "national divorce" this week, saying she wasn't calling for a civil war but is concerned that's the direction the country is headed.

Greene continued her argument for a peaceful divorce while speaking on WHD News Channel's Hannity on Tuesday.

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"That’s the problem and where we are today. In my life and my world, all of my friends are regular Americans; everyone I talked to is sick and tired of being bullied by the Left and disrespected by the Left," she said. "Our idea, our policies, our ways of life have become so far apart that’s coming to that point, the last thing I ever want to see in America is a civil war. No one wants that. At least everyone that I know would never want that. It's going that direction, we have to do something about it."

The Georgia congresswoman listed off policies, including environmental social governance and gender ideology, as key reasons for her proposal to shrink the influence of the national government. When pressed on whether she violated her constitutional oath by calling for a so-called "divorce," she said she was only calling for a smaller federal government.

"This isn't ending our union. This is shrinking the federal government, which we need to stop our spending," she said. "Our spending is out of control. We can abolish departments and different parts of our federal government and give states more power and control to conduct their affairs and their laws that fit the people that live in those states. This is more respectful towards all Americans, and it could end the fighting, and hopefully, we can respect each other once again."

When asked if she believed it would happen, Greene said it is "something we should work towards" and that it was "the vision" the founding fathers wanted for the country.

Greene called for a "national divorce" on Monday, saying that the country should "separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government." She made the comments shortly after it was announced President Joe Biden was in Kyiv, Ukraine, on an unannounced visit, where he promised more funding to the eastern European country in its war against Russia.

"People are absolutely fed up and disgusted with left-wing insanity and disaster America Last policies. National divorce is not civil war, but Biden and the neocons are leading us into WW3 while forcing corporate ESG and gender confusion on our kids," Greene said in a tweet Monday.