Hooray! Suddenly Blue State Governors Are for Federalism

We have argued for months that regardless of the outcome of the election, the only way we can “all get along” as a country given our ideological divisions is by devolving power out of Washington and back to the states and letting them decide policy. Education, environment, climate change, labor issues, abortion, tax levels, and welfare benefits, should all be policies left to the 50 states.

Now look who’s all for that: Democratic governors. You may have seen that governors JB Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California, Murphy of New Jersey, and Hochul of New York are organizing resistance campaigns against Trump policies. The problem is they want to have power over one of the few powers that does legitimately rest with the federal government – which is immigration policy. States can’t make up their own policies of who to let into the country.

But on other issues, if states want to opt out of federal directives, great. There are way, way too many federal laws.

We hope Trump lets blue states and blue state voters do their own thing – even if it means driving their states into the ground – as they’ve been doing for the last two decades. Americans can then vote with their feet to escape blue-state tyranny. Millions of Americans are doing that every year.

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