As the nation moves forward on women's rights, gender and sexuality equality, voting rights, etc. -
Republican extremists have fallen back to their last stand scenario, Republican led state legislatures. And the Christian evangelicals. This has always been in the cards, imo. Gerrymandering, targeted fear based messages and voter turn out among a vocal sliver of the electorate - even in deeply red states - is the (R) extremists' firewall against a changing national climate in the "social issues" sphere. Now they are doubling down on a blatant anti government meme while in need of many federal programs that, yes Mr. Cruz, are funded by federal tax dollars.
Hard to tell how this will play out but it looks to be a rocky road of legislation, lawsuits, appeals and public vindictiveness some verging on the totally bizarre. Well, some just plainly bizarre. And some plainly dangerous. At least in the short term. They know the courts, the law and general public opinion will not jump on this bandwagon for long.
I hope.
