Griffiths Speaks With HuffPost About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Call for a National Divorce
September 18, 2025
HuffPost
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene renewed her call for a “national divorce” following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, blaming liberals and claiming the country is too divided to coexist. Political science experts, however, warn that such a separation would not be peaceful, pointing to the violent history of secession in the U.S. and stressing that Americans are deeply interconnected.
Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science and author of The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work, says the “idea that irreconcilable differences justify secession ignores the violent history of such efforts, including the Civil War, and overlooks the reality that Americans are deeply intermixed—politically, geographically and ideologically.”
Griffiths says that while polarization is “real and worsening,” the solution is not to separate. It’s to find common ground.
“Americans share more values than they realize, and it is our political leadership and not the people that is most polarized,” he says . “We need leaders who reject extremism, denounce violence, and work together to heal the divide before the call for divorce becomes a dangerous reality.”
Read more in the HuffPost article, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants America To Make This Disturbing Change — And It’s Quite Alarming.”
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