So much for localism: Joel Kotkin

In the months that followed President Trump’s election, many thoughtful Democrats and progressives re-discovered the beauties of federalism.
After all, with a brute in the White House, maybe the best thing to do was to devolve power to the local level, notably in urban centers where Trump is about as popular as the bubonic plague.
The localist mantra was embraced by both the conservative American Enterprise institute and liberal Brookings. Cheerleaders for Barack Obama’s imperial pre