Strong Federalism would help.
Stop insulating the Red Staters from Red State policies. Let Red State politicians take away their health care options, their minimum wage, their access to clean air and water. Let them race to the bottom to be the dumping grounds for the lowest-bidding polluters. Let them enact child labor laws that allow their children to go back to digging coal. It's what their Red State politicians run on, why shouldn't they get it? Because there are Blue State citizens living there? Tough shit, democracy or no democracy? Pick one already.
Without strong federalism, those Red State policies might just be coming to the entire country ala a Red State Senate and White House (they already have the House, and the Supreme Court).
And you know I'm dropping this off.
If Democrats truly believe in the power of their policies, they should be ready to weaponize federalism.
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Obviously white victimhood is one of the main driving forces for the Republican Party continuing to win elections. If Red State voters have to actually live in the Red States their politicians are trying to create, maybe they'll realize they have more in common with average Blue Staters and voting accordingly. Or maybe they won't and they want their children dumb and working for $3.00 an hour. Democracy ain't always pretty, and as long as Red State voters get Blue State protections, they'll vote Race over Economics, because hey, their Red State politicians can't actually deliver all of their campaign promises on economic issues since Blue State politicians stop them... so why not keep voting for Race?