Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants America To Make This Disturbing Change — And It’s Quite Alarming

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again repeated her idea that America should go through what she calls a “national divorce.” She brought this up after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a killing that shook many on the right. Greene used Kirk’s death as an example of why she believes conservatives and liberals can no longer live together in the same country.

In a post on X, the platform once known as Twitter, she accused liberals of celebrating Kirk’s death and claimed that millions of people on the left want conservatives dead. She argued that there is no way to talk to or work with liberals anymore, saying they hate conservatives and cannot be trusted.

Greene told her supporters to protect their families, pray for the left, but ultimately avoid them completely. She described her preferred outcome as a “peaceful” national divorce, but many experts believe there is nothing peaceful about what she is proposing.

This is not the first time Greene has suggested splitting the country. In 2021, she pushed the idea that if someone moved from a liberal state like California or New York to a conservative state like Florida, they should not be allowed to vote right away. She said these new residents needed a “cooling off period,” arguing that liberal voters destroy states and should not be allowed to ruin strong conservative ones.

In 2023, she took the argument further by saying “we need a national divorce” and claimed that everyone she spoke with agreed. She blamed what she described as disgusting “woke” cultural issues and the Democratic Party’s supposed betrayal of America for pushing the country too far apart. Her message was clear: she wanted conservatives and liberals to live in completely separate nations.

Her comments have been widely criticized, not only by Democrats but also by scholars and commentators who study history and politics. Journalist Mehdi Hasan pointed out that her state of Georgia has already tried this once before, back in the 1860s.

At that time, Georgia and ten other southern states seceded from the Union to protect the institution of slavery. That secession led to the Civil War, which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and left the country scarred for generations. Hasan said Greene’s words are dangerous because they echo the same kind of thinking that once brought America to the brink of destruction.

Political scientists stress that Greene’s call for a national divorce is not only dangerous but also impossible in practice. Ryan Griffiths, a professor at Syracuse University, explained that Americans are too deeply connected and spread out across the entire country to divide into separate nations.

Conservatives and liberals live side by side, even within the same towns and families. A divorce of the nation would not create clean boundaries; it would create chaos. Griffiths warned that trying to separate would almost certainly lead to violence, displacement, and lawlessness, just as history has shown in other cases of secession.

He also argued that while Americans are polarized, they share more values than they realize, and it is political leaders who are stoking division for their own gain. He believes the real answer is not to separate but to reject extremism and work on healing divisions.

Another expert, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. of Northwestern University, added that Greene’s rhetoric is not new. He connected it to older ideas often used by white nationalist politicians in the 20th century and beyond.

When many white opponents of racial integration left the Democratic Party in the 1980s and joined the Republican Party, they brought with them renewed talk of “states’ rights” and weakening the federal government. Tillery said Greene’s language about a national divorce is simply the latest version of those themes.

He warned that this talk has serious real-world consequences. He noted that Black colleges, professors, and public figures across the country have been facing threats in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, including himself. For him, this shows how calls for a national divorce give fuel to extremists and encourage more hate, making Greene’s rhetoric more dangerous than normal political speech.

Taken together, Greene’s repeated push for a national divorce is not just a political stunt or a dramatic statement. Experts say it reflects a deep current of division in American politics, one that risks normalizing ideas that once led to the Civil War.

They argue that instead of playing into fear and anger, leaders should work to bring people together, since the American public is far more blended and connected than Greene’s rhetoric admits. Her call for separation might sound like an easy solution to her supporters, but history and reality suggest it would be disastrous for the country as a whole.