Progressives to revert to same States Rights argument Southern obstructionists used

Pogo’s “we have met the enemy and he is us” is the observation that progressive’s will soon understand as theirs by having made Washington a meddlesome institution that can do unto them with the same autocratic contrary behaviour as they had done unto the rural rubes previously. Democrats will have to concentrate their efforts inward toward the coastal urban states and resist Washington with the same States Rights arguments that Southern obstructionists had used against them. If California should decide its natural course is to provide higher education, comprehensive health care and sanctuary protection for the immigrant population that fuels its economy then it should self fund and disentangle itself from the central web that holds it back by reasserting the rights of States never ceded to the central government by the Constitution. Its this structure of government that will save us from the autocracy envisioned by David Frum’s opinion piece in The Atlantic.