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[The mayor of Memphis is a Democrat with Lib ideas and policies.]

The author is making a good point, just not in the way he intends. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division stands in the way of red state governors taking full control of black-run municipalities. Because to prevent black local pols from destroying the cities they run is to restore Jim Crow, or something. The worst part of Civil Rights Division overreach is how it reached outside former Confederate states to impose consent decrees on Union states.

In firing black and white DAs in high black population areas who refused to enforce the law, DeSantis pushed back, hard. So far, Democrat legal challenges to his firings have failed. But for governors, it’s definitely a legal and maybe career minefield that involves going to war with the Civil Rights Division.

Many of these pols go on to corporate board seats or sinecures after exiting politics. How many want to be tarred as racists in the media, thereby ending up on corporate blacklists?

People say politics should not be a career. How would the average pol feel about working as a burger flipper after being blacklisted for higher level jobs after quitting the political arena?