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Your guide to what the American elections mean 2024 for Washington and the world
The idea of ”two Americas”, one rich and one poor, one blue and the other red, has been around for decades. But now, thanks to Donald Trump, there is about fifty America.
As soon as the new president can sign executive orders, individual state governments ascend to challenge them in court. The result will be a more confused environment for business – and wealthy lawyers – as blue countries are looking for ways to study themselves from immigration raids, the weakest environmental regulations, the power of major technology monopoly and huge discounts in federal aid on everything from health care to health relief in emergency.
The lawsuits, which were widespread during the first period of Trump, began again last week as Massachusetts, New Jersey and California led a group of 18 states in submitting a challenge to the order of the CEO that ends the newly born citizenship. Four other states lifted a similar suit. “The newly born citizenship. It is a guarantee of equality, born from a mass battle against persecution. It is a stable right to our constitution and recognizes the Supreme Court for more than a century.”
While one cannot only hope that today's court will not agree to a recent copy of the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which prohibits citizenship for worshipers, the battle will be expensive and read. Ironically, a series of rulings issued by the Supreme Court at the end of 2023 make it much easier for individuals, companies and countries affected by the federal government.
Blue state governments, for example, are responsible for many monopolistic battles launched by the Biden administration. The Progressive Attorney at Minnesota Keith Ellson replaced the head of the former Federal Trade Committee, Lina Khan, as a war on the prices of predatory tickets, tampering with algorithms in real estate markets, insect friction, and rental pharmaceutical companies.
The states will also be zero for the decline in climate legislation, including the law to reduce inflation in Biden, which Trump insists on calling the new green deal. While the president may seek to rename some of the rulings that have benefited from the red countries as its own, it receives subsidies for things like electric cars.
California is preparing for the next climate battle. Between 2017 and 2021, the state filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration 123 times, as it achieved several victories against the abolition of environmental restrictions, albeit mostly on administrative foundations. This time, the Trump administration has the expertise and best bureaucratic slices. California has already withdrawn many requests granted under the Biden administration to impose its restrictions on higher pollution. Trump threatens to block federal relief to disasters in Los Angeles unless the state changes water management, blame for preservation efforts for the city's inability to control fires.
California Governor Gavin New Roire asked $ 25 million in the state budget to cover the expected costs of Trump's fight. The state will also use the power of its massive (fifth largest in the world) to try to cut deals with the major companies that meet its clean energy standards, as it did with the major global auto manufacturers during the first Trump period.
This is an important point. Blue states are home to most of the country's largest consumers. They can create strong request signals for the rest of the country, even if the president does not like it. When the Housing Authority in New York City, for example, decides to build a specific type of window, it can set industry standards for years. When California, New York, Illinois or Massachusetts choose a specific type of technology platform for general education systems, a specific base of food safety, or a specific approach to work and AI, it can raise the balance of what companies do.
Of course, the economic clouds of business will balance in such places with the organizational burdens that they impose, especially for the red countries that will be happy to adopt the Trump Ferrez Fire agenda. A friend with a small company spent a general year, and tens of thousands of dollars in the legal fees trying to launch a potentially lazy and safe person who has rented him in California, who worked remotely. Its replacement is from the friend Tennessee.
Historically, the American states tend to gather better when you fight something, and this time it does not differ. Last November, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and the Governor of Colorado Jared Police created a new group called conservatives who protect democracy, with the aim of collecting resources to combat the Trump agenda. For example, Pritzker said he would not cooperate if Trump tries to use the National Guard units of the Red State to deport in the blue states. Will California send resources to help?
Here we hope that such questions will remain things from Dystopian movies. The truth is that the blue countries, which have a great deficit, will have to find ways to deal with less financial support from Washington. Conservatives are already calling for a new type of financial federation, blame the budgets of the inflating state for the problem of national debt. There are no prizes for guessing where the first cuts will be made.
