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Disagree. Surely you can find more republicans defending more power to the states and criticizing Federal encroachment than democrats. Brexit was mostly a "libe
by rglullis 5y ago
Disagree. Surely you can find more republicans defending more power to the states and criticizing Federal encroachment than democrats. Brexit was mostly a "liberal/left" vs "conservative/right" affair than any other. EU-skepticism is not only a nationalistic/authoritarian talking point. In Latin America, all the left governments have softened on their speech, but their ideology is pretty much dictated by the Foro de São Paulo and there has been more than one occasion where Lula/Chavez/Kirschner/Morales put their own countries below the FSP's agenda.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Surely you can find more republicans defending more power to the states and criticizing Federal encroachment than democrats. As vague rhetoric, sure. When you get to brass tacks, those same Republicans tend to also to want federal control to prohibit state actions that they disagree with across a wide spectrum of things. The Republican Party, no different than the Democratic Party, favors state control on issues it feels it can't rally a federal legislative majority on, and federal control where it can and there are states that would otherwise defy it.