An interesting post by Mark Tapscott at Instapundit who links to a Substack column proposing what I choose to call “extreme federalism.” The pseudonymous author imagines a US future with the present 50 states and new ones like Canada, Greenland, and Gaza.
It imagines TX, CA, FL, and more as sovereign states going their own ways, pursuing their own policies, sharing relatively few laws at the Supra-state level. It is viewed as an ‘evolutionary’ governmental form.
Would it work? I am unsure. It is a fun-to-think-about abstraction. Upon further reflection, it is somewhat like libertarianism at the state level. Cohesive foreign policy would be impossible.
