It’s been a long time coming, but some on the Left are starting to see that promoting “States’ Rights” is not an unequivocal endorsement of racial segregation and the policies of Bull Connor. The Atlantic ran a piece by Conor Friedersdorf a while back, in which he charged progressives with considering the merits of federalism, a bold move, considering they’re some of the least tolerant to decentralized power structures.
I congratulated them in a column at the Tenth Amendment Center, which ran last week. I also suggested they extend this view to the drug war, environmentalism, and, if the Left ever goes back to opposing wars of empire and occupation, to that as well.
