As a proud 4th generation Texan, I would like to say going to California in various ways would strike me as being a place that uses state power in backwards way

As a proud 4th generation Texan, I would like to say going to California in various ways would strike me as being a place that uses state power in backwards ways as well. Unfortunately for the both of us, not to speak for anything specifically to California, our states have managed to make some bad decisions. I believe I have standing to speak to recent Texas policy in regard to the recent abortion madness, illegalizing delta-8 THC products etc... sad times indeed. I am very pro federalism myself, and think that competition of polity would be a great unwinding of federal power. But it seems the iterim is going to be the states fighting against the Fed in extreme ways.