Friday, May 15, 2020
The only real journalist
Berenson asks a MAJOR historical question that hasn't been noticed before:
I wonder if a historian on US federal/state/local relationships could point to the last time power struggles were this overt: the 1950s and 1960s in the South, when the feds finally forced an end to segregation? But even that was more fed/state than state/local.
Quick and incomplete answer: Prohibition involved similar county vs state frictions. "County option" was a common phrase in states like Okla and Miss and Kansas where some degree of state prohibition continued long after 1933. But in that case the friction wasn't hostile or violent. It was just a tacit recognition that some counties needed more bribe income than others.
This time the friction is hostile, with sane counties defending sanity and normalcy and LIFE against psychopathic rot-brained Thrill Killer Holocauster governors.
¶ 7:04 AM 
