-- from an outside perspective it feels like declined American manufacturing / skilled labour simply continuing it's reflection into the American society? - this started long before trump? -- bail out the banks > 1% hate > occupy wall st etc > "coastal elite" > state pride > trump etc > appetite in the country for the court to address federal vs state precedent? Could be wrong, just how it looks from the outside --
There's more to it. The American right has been working a multi-decade long plan to pack the supreme court with... Well, people like this. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
They'd have done this regardless of the state of industrialization or 1% hate. It's an alliance between religious fundamentalism, and the business community, and what they want has stayed constant despite the short term ebbs and flows of politics.
Also, please don't buy into the states rights nonsense. This group only believes in states rights when they don't control the federal government.
It's really best to just not listen to what it says, and instead look at what it does.
Trump is a tool. He didn't do this. He doesn't have the brain power to do this. This was the CNP, the Federalist Society, the Koch bruhs, etc. They've worked on this for decades. DECADES.
