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Haven't Republican or conservative areas done the same thing? One thinks of e.g. Roy Moore telling Alabama judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Civil disobedience on the municipal level is not something that only liberals do. Why have the office of president at all, on this logic...

Is that holding up an ideal against, well, the actual on-the-ground reality? If the great majority of people see the United States as a single country and the states as just administrative subdivisions, rather than sovereign states in their own right, does it make sense to say that they're all...

For what it's worth, I'd argue that is a perfectly reasonable argument to make and I think I agree with it. It's no doubt true that the United States needs to have some counter-majoritarian institutions in order to stop the most populous areas of the country overriding the interests of other...