Rep. Taylor Greene, Steve Bannon discuss splitting US into red and blue states

In a haunting look into what could be a possible dystopian future, former top Trump advisor Steve Bannon and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene discussed the interest among some Americans in a “national divorce” between Red and Blue states. 

In an unscientific Twitter poll conducted by Greene, according to her, 43% of the more than 84,000 respondents supported splitting the nation between Democratic and Republican stronghold states. However, 48% of respondents still said that they should “stay together,” and 9% were “undecided.”

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Furthermore, the GOP congresswoman, talking to Bannon on his War Room podcast on Friday, said that the US citizens are encouraged to split due to “irreconcilable differences.” She said her survey should be “a wakeup call to Democrats in particular, that they cannot do this to our country,” according to the Newsweek reports.

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However, Bannon insisted that the country should not split apart, and “vehemently” opposed the idea.

“We have to start to govern like we mean it,” said the former Trump administration official. “The problem is we win elections and we have these country-club Republicans, and we basically are the controlled opposition—even in power. My take is that if you’re going to keep this country together, start acting like you’re in charge. We’re putting together a coalition from the Rio Grande Valley to the inner cities, African American males, the hard-working blue collar Hispanics from those hard-scrabble counties in south Texas.”

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Meanwhile, on Twitter, Greene used her unscientific poll to attack Democratic leadership, and wrote: “With nearly $30 Trillion in debt & more on the way, a serious border invasion, repulsive moral decline, uncontrollable inflation, & Democratic Communism, I too might agree [with the ones who want to split].”

After her chain of tweets was widely shared by the conservatives,  the term “civil war” became a top trending topic on Twitter. While many criticised the assessment, others insisted it would not happen. Many also said such trends underline the growing political divide within the nation.