re: #283 Decatur Deb

Don’t get raphsodic too soon:

Repealing the 17th Amendment has long been a hobbyhorse of the fringe right, but the Tea Party and Paulite libertarians popularized it, along with their fetishization of a revisionist view of the Founders and states’ rights.

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No, I’ve seen many express that viewpoint too and it’s a frankly increasingly common and frightening one among the right but Paul was talking about restoring voting rights to non-felons and this is that one issue where he may actually be right.