Marjorie Taylor Greene Has an Interesting Idea for Once in Her Life
Greene is bat-shit crazy, but I guess it just proves that even madwomen Republicans, if they drive enough nails, can finally pin a board to the barn wall. She advocates that red states (those with staunch Republican denial of the 2020 election) should secede from the nation in order to control their own destinies without leaving the Union.
A bit like having your cake and eating it, but let’s hear her out.
Secession has a good deal to be said for it, 158 years after our bloodiest war ended
What began in 1861 had the best of intentions, but the outcome of our Civil War didn’t really solve anything other than to enslave the freed slaves of the South by other means. Our united states are—and have been since then—divided racially, politically, socially, economically and philosophically.
Greene would have us recognize that
Her plan is to empower the Red States of today to live as they want, govern themselves as they wish, while affirming and further empowering the issue of ‘state’s rights’ to do…