so you're saying that African Americans were wrong to push for equal civil rights when the majority was happy with Jim Crow laws, as expressed by who they voted into office ?https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1174361721345073153 …
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3/ > Dogmatic claims about inviolable rights are implicitly claims about conditions for legitimate political authority So you're saying that Roe v Wade is NOT settled law and we can roll it back if we have a majority at either a federal or state level?https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1174365408280928256 …
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4/ Yes, we agree on this. It is VERY dangerous to tell me that you're coming to take my guns. Bane voice: TO YOU.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1174366199502782470 …
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I suppose it might be equally valid to say that one of the points of America is that these things differ between federal, state, and county scales. Part of the idea is that it is safe to experiment with different desires for majorities between states.
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It is, in part, the conservative perspective that state freedoms are elemental and allow local majorities to override federal majorities. That was, after all, one of the core reasons for federalism – even though no living politician seems to have read that document.
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