i think also the primacy of national politics in political discourse has maybe led people to forget that governance is very decentralized and the federal government does not control the states and has limited enforcement power over them

For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps. Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...

Watch Past Tense and get both at once!