Re: “In their own words: Trump vs. Newsom on the Los Angeles protests” (June 9, Nation & World Politics)
Republicans not care about states’ rights. President Donald Trump made that clear when he deployed the Nationwide Guard in California in opposition to the categorical request of the governor not to take action.
States’ rights was a Republican rallying cry for over a century. It was central to what Republicans stood for and was invoked to assist the positions of particular person states on all the pieces from schooling to the surroundings. No extra.
So, what’s the core worth of the Republican Celebration at this time? Once we see broad partisan assist for Trump’s orders to deport immigrants — lots of whom are on this nation legally, many in search of asylum to flee mortal threats of their residence international locations — and when these deportations instantly contravene court docket orders, it’s clear that at this time’s Republican Celebration doesn’t worth the rule of legislation. Or compassion. This isn’t my father’s Republican Celebration.
Contemplating the actions of this administration because it took workplace, and the broad social gathering assist for these actions, each inside and out of doors Congress, the one constant worth I can see is unyielding submission to the whims of 1 man. Is that this something that we, the folks, ought to assist?
Leonard Bordeaux, Seattle
