In politics, they say timing is everything. Tuesday was President Donald Trump’s first full day back in office. But it was also the first full day in almost a year that Oregon’s part-time legislature was back in session. The timing isn’t a coincidence — it’s a call to action.
The incoming Trump administration is managing a lot of moving parts right now. Territorial expansion and sovereignty, immigration and border security, economic and energy policies, foreign policy and defense, and social policies such as education and healthcare. To be most effective, the Trump administration must move federal-state relations and state governance, especially in blue states, to the top of the playbook.
The Democratic Party’s regional state governance strategy has given it a stranglehold on the West Coast since at least 2013, the year former President Barack Obama began his second…
