On this past Presidents’ Day, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted:
We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
On Monday September 11, 2023, Greene (R-Ga.) wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “if the Biden admin refuses to stop the invasion of cartel led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union.”
Greene is not alone in her views. She is giving voice to a widespread and growing sentiment in the Republican Party. Among Republicans in the South, for example, support for secession was 66 percent in June 2021, according to a Bright Line Watch/YouGov poll. (The poll found support for secession growing among every partisan group in the months following the January 6 riot at the Capitol.)
Personally, I have believed for years that Abraham Lincoln made a mistake in fighting the succession of the South. The United States fought to keep the people of the South against their will. The consequence has been the never ending display of Civil War flags to this day.
The 13 colonies themselves also faught for freedom in the American Revolution. The British couldn’t win because they were fighting to hold the colonies against their will.
Unless we have leadership in the United States that convinces Americans to stay united succession is in the future of this country.
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