“We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government,” Greene said in a tweet on President’s Day this year.
Blue state governors, legislatures and mayors might respond to such an offensive in forceful ways difficult to predict today.
The Republican-appointed majority on the US Supreme Court has encouraged the red state social offensive with decisions that stripped away national rights – most prominently on abortion and voting.
“Given the make-up of the courts, it’s difficult for blue states to be hopeful about this,” says Kettl.
“The United States does not get to assume that it lasts forever.”
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