This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined by 25 other GOP governors, now argues that the Biden administration has violated the federal government’s “compact” with the states—an abdication that justifies state usurpation of federal authority at the border.
This language embraces the Confederacy’s conception of the Constitution as a mere compact that states may exit when they feel it has been broken. It’s dangerous rhetoric that transcends partisan grandstanding. And as before, it’s being used to legitimize both nullification and dehumanization.
When I hear shit like this, it makes me think Sherman didn’t go far enough. He should’ve eradicated the South and given the land to the union. Slaveowners should’ve been arrested and stripped of their property rights. Southern states should’ve been dissolved and their governments reconstituted by the union.
The union should’ve crushed the south and occupied it like the US occupied Nazi Germany post-WWII.
If these GOP governors actually gave a shit about fixing the border, they would be pushing the GOP congress to unblock the border bill. But they want the crisis to fester so they can campaign on it.
Opportunist scum.
Even a single red state ‘leaving’ the US would crush their house majority and deprive them of two senators. No way it happens.
Even better, since they receive more federal money than they give, we’d be left with excess money that can be used for states that actually give a damn about their people.
You know what happens when theories are tested and found out to be false?
They’re no longer used.
Republicans: “Since when??”
Ivermectin, creationism, abstinence policy on anything, trickle-down; were you thinking of any of those theories?
