Re: “In their own words: Trump vs. Newsom on the Los Angeles protests” (June 9, Nation & World Politics)
Republicans now 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 things from schooling to the setting. No extra.
So, what’s the core worth of the Republican Occasion in the present day? Once we see broad partisan assist for Trump’s orders to deport immigrants — lots of whom are on this nation legally, many looking for asylum to flee mortal threats of their house nations — and when these deportations straight contravene court docket orders, it’s clear that in the present day’s Republican Occasion doesn’t worth the rule of regulation. Or compassion. This isn’t my father’s Republican Occasion.
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
