preempt the ability of those blue metro s to make their own decisions and for voters in those places to set their own course. you know you re talking before about the generational transition in many of these states, the generational transition and the racial transition are completely overlapping. they are essentially the same thing. you talk about places like florida or georgia or texas or tennessee or arizona before they elected a governor places where the preemption has been most powerful. generally speaking, you have a republican coalition that is rooted in the older generations that are predominantly white in those states and a democratic coalition that is rooted in the increasingly diverse younger generations in those states and what we see not only on pre emption but on issues like lgbtq rights and voting and abortion bans and book bands and class. bathroom censorship. you see these republican coalitions moving to impose on the states the values of their older, white , predominan
moving across a whole series of fronts. like i said lgbtq rights free speech rights in the classroom, voting rights, abortion rights to roll that back and set their own rules on civil rights and civil liberties . and this i think it s just a powerful symbol of the way in which the red states are departing from what had been kind of a centralized. the notion that there was a baseline of rights available to all americans. you certainly could punish them for their actions in that protest, but there s a lot you can do short of expelling them, and by expelling them. they are sending a very clear message about what they feel about the scent, not only in this case, but in general really interesting discussion. audit corners. thank you, ron brownstein. thank you so much. we re going to keep monitoring this check in again with our gary tuchman. there s also breaking news tonight after a heavy rocket attacks earlier from southern lebanon. tonight. israeli air strikes in and around gaza more rock
that those protests were kind of out of control and wild and wrong and should have been sort of put down in some way, and i don t think it s an accident that right now this kind of spark of this fight is around decor. um right. all of the kind of code we use for how should we conduct politics in this country? um and how there is a clash of generations in the thinking about that run. good real quick. i just think we can t lose sight of how fundamentally the red states and blue states are diverging. i mean, the red states really are in many ways building a nation within a nation. the general trend in american life from the sixties until around, 2020 was to nationalize more rights and reduce the ability of states to restrict those rights. everything from abortion and contraception to one person, one vote. the a d. a title nine. you know, the voting rights act and what we have seen since 2020 with the support of the majority on the supreme court. is states
conduct politics in this country and how there is a clash of generations in the thinking about that, ron? good real quick . i just think we can t lose sight of how fundamentally the red states and blue states are diverging. i mean, the red states really are in many ways, building a nation within a nation the general trend in american life from the sixties until around 2020 was to nationalize more rights and reduce the ability of states to restrict those rights. everything from abortion and contraception to one person. one vote the a d. a title nine. you know, the voting rights act and what we have seen since 2020 with the support of the majority on the supreme court. is states moving across a whole series of fronts. like i said, lgbtq rights free speech rights in the classroom, voting rights, abortion rights. to roll that back and set their own rules on civil rights and civil liberties . and this i think it s just a powerful symbol of the way in which the red states are departing from