Rep. Far-right Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called for “safe spaces” for Republicans and drew a quick blowback on Twitter.
Critics mockingly dubbed Greene “snowflake” and suggested her comments “beyond parody,” given how the idea of safe spaces has long been mocked by her fellow GOP extremists.
“We want a safe place and we deserve it,” Greene told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview about the idea of a “national divorce.”
Greene’s proposal would involve dividing the country “by red states and blue states,” with Americans who move from blue to red temporarily disenfranchised. The idea has been interpreted by some as a call for secession.
But speaking to Hannity, Greene said he’s not talking about a separate state or secession, or trying to start a civil war, but “reducing the size of the federal government, and giving more power and control to our country to be the identity that they want to be, whether blue or red” because “the division in our country has reached a dangerous point.”
“We are fed up with Democratic policies, we are fed up with woke ideology that shoved down our throats and we are tired of our children being brainwashed with these ideas,” he ranted. “We want our own safe place and we deserve it.”