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Rhiannon12866

(248,137 posts) Sun Oct 12, 2025, 10:57 PM Oct 12

Federalism is the core principle of the U.S. government. Trump is undermining it. - Velshi - MSNBC

America is built upon the principle of federalism, a form of government in which power is balanced and responsibilities are shared between the states and the federal government.

The Trump administration, however, is increasingly undermining it by using the levers of the federal government to impose its ideology upon the states. “These efforts to try to insinuate federal control in areas where it’s not supposed to be operating is sort of breaking down this really important barrier that we have against a truly authoritarian government,” Vox Senior Correspondent Zack Beauchamp tells Ali Velshi. - Aired on 10/12/2025.

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Federalism is the core principle of the U.S. government. Trump is undermining it. - Velshi - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 12 OP

To me, federalism is provincialism. Frasier Balzov Oct 12 #1

And the same thing is true of the outmoded Electoral College which made sense when it took weeks to travel Rhiannon12866 Oct 12 #2

Frasier Balzov

(4,759 posts)

1. To me, federalism is provincialism.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 11:38 PM

Oct 12

It dates from a time when it took weeks to travel.

If Trump destroys the principle, then let a future Democratic President use that transformation to bring greater uniformity to the country from coast to coast.

Such as with the issue of guns and ammunition.

Rhiannon12866

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2. And the same thing is true of the outmoded Electoral College which made sense when it took weeks to travel

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 12, 2025, 11:46 PM

Oct 12

Which has, more than once, resulted in a "win" for a candidate not chosen by the majority of the American people.

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