• Mitt Romney thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene’s strategy to split up the US is unhinged.
• “We’re not heading to divide the nation. It really is united we stand and divided we slide,” Romney claimed.
• He alleged that fringe users of the GOP say mad things as a cynical way to draw in donations.

Sen. Mitt Romney did not mince phrases when he weighed in on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s President’s Day pitch to divide the US into purple and blue states. 

“I imagine Abraham Lincoln dealt with that form of madness,” Romney explained to reporters in Utah on Tuesday, per The Salt Lake Tribune. “We’re not likely to divide the nation. It truly is united we stand and divided we drop.”

Romney also alleged that fringe customers of the GOP are utilizing nuts thoughts like secession as a cynical way to grift revenue from their supporters.

“There are some people today in my party and the other get together that say things to try and get a headline and get men and women to mail them funds. And that happens to be in today’s ‘loony still left,’ or I should really say ‘loony appropriate,'” Romney claimed, for every The Salt Lake Tribune. 

The congresswoman responded to Romney’s jab in an job interview with the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.

“Mitt Romney is so bad I couldn’t even vote for him for president from Barack Obama,” Greene informed the outlet.

Greene on Monday designed the recommendation that the US requires “a countrywide divorce.” In accordance to Greene, this would include the US getting broken up into “red states and blue states.” 

“From the sick and disgusting woke society difficulties shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Final insurance policies, we are performed,” Greene tweeted.

She doubled down on her recommendation to break up the US in two during an overall look on Fox News on Tuesday, declaring with no substantiation that the US is heading in the direction of a Civil War and that a pre-emptive break up is important. 

“The previous point I at any time want to see in The us is a civil war. No just one desires that — at the very least absolutely everyone I know would never want that — but it is really going that direction, and we have to do anything about it,” she stated.

“Our tips, our guidelines and our ways of lifetime have grow to be so much aside that it truly is just coming to that stage,” she extra.

Splitting into two countries did not reduce the final US civil war in 1861, when fighting broke out after a collection of southern states broke absent to kind the Accomplice States of The united states in the hope of preserving slavery.

Greene’s notion for a countrywide divorce has also been given pushback from other users of her get together. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox known as the Ga congresswoman’s get in touch with to break up the United States “evil” and “destructive.” 

“We do not require a divorce, we have to have marriage counseling. And we need to have elected leaders that will not revenue by tearing us aside,” Cox tweeted.

Associates for Romney and Greene did not instantly react to Insider’s requests for remark.