In 50 years, California’s authority to set environmental rules that are tougher than national standards had never been challenged by Congress. Until now.
I remember when American conservatives in the ‘60s claimed to support states’ rights. But what they actually supported was segregation and Jim Crow. They used “states’ rights” as a rhetorical tool to hide their racism behind a facade of principle, just like the Confederacy had a hundred years prior.
Among the American right, only useful idiots (like libertarians) actually believed in states’ rights - or small government rhetoric in general - as a principle. It was always empty rhetoric. And now that Republicans are openly supporting Trump’s big government authoritarian conservatism, it’s become obvious how badly the Ron Paul types were used.
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I remember when American conservatives in the ‘60s claimed to support states’ rights. But what they actually supported was segregation and Jim Crow. They used “states’ rights” as a rhetorical tool to hide their racism behind a facade of principle, just like the Confederacy had a hundred years prior.
Among the American right, only useful idiots (like libertarians) actually believed in states’ rights - or small government rhetoric in general - as a principle. It was always empty rhetoric. And now that Republicans are openly supporting Trump’s big government authoritarian conservatism, it’s become obvious how badly the Ron Paul types were used.