A better solution is the establishment of city states. Give big cities unlimited powers of taxation and regulation, within city limits. That is a fate worse than having a nuclear bomb go off.
I’m not sure I like that idea. We already see how big cities choke off all the areas around them and how bad ideas escape big liberal urban areas and filter out to the lesser wannabe activists and supporters. How would the dynamic between the 2 work?
Offset the city states with the consolidation of all of the small liberal states in the northeast, and make Hawaii a possession again. It’s too far away to be a state.
But they don’t get to expand the city limits for any reason. Period.