1. The us is a failed democracy. The senate and the POTUS are incredibly not representative, thus many extremist policies get pushed contrary to popular opinion

1. The us is a failed democracy. The senate and the POTUS are incredibly not representative, thus many extremist policies get pushed contrary to popular opinion 2. The modern GOP is decidedly against states rights; they want their preferred laws and nothing else. For examples, see Trump’s plan to take away CAs ability to have its own emissions laws, the SCOTUS scrapping any ability for a state to require any burden of need to carry a gun, and the early anti-abortion laws that I believe will attempt to charge women for murder even if they get an abortion out of jurisdiction.