He is talking about GOP conflating federalism, while arguing for state rights. GOP has been running a successful campaign hiding authoritarianism under the mask of state rights. He is right, the US right does claim ownership of libertarianism, but you are correct that it’s just authoritarianism on the state level.
Well... until Trump...
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Small government at the federal level, massive government on the state level. Until Trump...