[GenXPolymath]

All valid points, the issue is the pendulum will swing back eventually and we don’t want to set up the feds to have even more power over the states. So short term political gains vs precedent set and when not if the dems have control again you really want them with even more power over the states. Flyover country has no say what NYC does and that’s how it should be. I don’t want California or New York to be able to tell Texas what we can and cannot get our legislature to pass. Because if they could your gun rights are gone. The Texas silencer law is perfect example of the commerce clause being used by fedzilla to over turn a state law that passed.

[Wallace T.]

If the pendulum does swing leftward in 2028 and thereafter, the Democrats will have no qualms on imposing green energy policies, restrictions on gun ownership, and suppression of state restrictions on sexual matters. They abused the interstate commerce clause, the purpose of which was to prevent one state to impose tariff barriers on another state or foreign country, and have done so going back to Wilson and FDR. The interstate clause has been used as a "wax nose" for a very long time. What Trump is doing regarding congestion pricing into Manhattan will have no impact on what a future Democratic President does.