We had a social market economy before the Civil War, really? We had an unelected bureaucracy that wrote all the laws, and the Congress could not write a single law?
I use this analogy: Before the Civil War, the US was like a brick wall, the bricks being the states and the thin layer of mortar being the U.S. government.
Now it is a wall of mortar with fifty little marbles pressed into it for decoration.
I believe a noisy german prat had the same vision with his third reich a few decades ago. I guess there is still a Vichy French element that agrees with him. Hitler came real close to his Eurozone dreams run by the reich.
The EU was never about states’ rights. It’s always been imperialistic. They didn’t make their Brussels government a copy of the USSR’s government for no reason.