AS posted before, the thing about Trump is he has no PRINCIPLES other than whatever works best for him. That approach has turned conservative and libertarians on their heads and made at least half of the GOP revolt.
Not just my thought, here you go. Author is a Federalist Society law professor (I think), so hard core prior GOP
Republicans are abandoning the states:
'For half a century, the Republican Party was the party of the states. Republican politicians criticized federal courts from interfering with states’ prerogatives, on civil rights and other issues. Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and a Republican Congress — led by Speaker Newt Gingrich — dismantled federal social programs and sent a fraction of the money to the states to spend as they chose. Efforts to win the votes of Republican senators led the Senate Finance Committee to design the relatively decentralized, state-controlled Affordable Care Act that we have today (rather than the more federally directed version that had passed the House)."
Democrats, too, were cognizant of states’ concerns: Many Democratic members of Congress are former governors and state legislators and retained sympathies for their former colleagues. But with its resurgence in the late 1960s stemming from its absorption of civil rights opponents proclaiming “states’ rights,” the Republican Party has been the dominant champion of the states.
"How times have changed. The Trump administration tried to strip states of environmental policymaking authority that its Republican predecessors demanded that they be granted. The party that once insisted that education was fundamentally a local matter is now pressuring states and localities to resume in-person education. The president has pushed for state election laws to be overridden. None of these moves have brought substantial criticism — much less action — from the vast majority of congressional Republicans. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is demanding that state tort law be nationalized."
More here https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/513058-republicans-are-abandoning-the-states
but maybe we can talk about Federals secret police instead :-)
