Brownstein on Padilla: They Don’t View Blue States as Partners in Governing but as Hostile Territories To Be Subdued

RUSH EXCERPT:
BROWNSTEIN: "By the time they by the time they handcuff him, they know he‘s a U.S. senator. By the time his face is on the ground and it weakens the tape. This like all day, you know. But it is it is a mistake to view this in isolation. I mean, they are detaining a U.S. senator after the Trump Administration has arrested a mayor, a judge in Milwaukee, a U.S. representative in New Jersey, a labor leader in California. They have federalized the national guard over the objection of a democratic governor for the first time since the civil rights era, when governors were actively impeding the enforcement of federal law in seven minutes and 24 seconds, they‘re going to be in federal court arguing they have the authority without invoking the insurrection Act To send convoys of marines to accompany ice agents into American neighborhoods. And Kristi Noem is talking about liberating her. Her word liberate Los Angeles from its leadership, all of which I think adds up to a as I wrote this week, they do not view blue states and cities and their representatives as legitimate partners in governing what Madison called our compound republic. They view them as hostile territory to be subdued, and we are seeing that taken more literally. I mean, I was talking about mostly about policy, but now with the deployment of the guard, the various arrests of democratic officials, the detaining of a U.S. senator in this way, whatever the immediate provocation, they knew he was a senator when they handcuffed him."