I used to debate @StephenMoore on @larry_kudlow's show on @CNBC. His economic ideas certainly could be carbon-dated to abt 1923, but he didn't strike me as much of a history buff. Perhaps he's unaware that conservatives in 1955 stridently opposed Rosa Parks' stand & civil rights.
William F. Buckley actually founded The National Review weeks before Ms. Parks' arrest and he grounded the magazine in the notion of "states' rights." Does Moore not believe governors, not the federal gov't, should decide how to safeguard their citizens? salon.com/2015/06/07/wil…
It would be an odd "conservative" position to say the federal gov't should command governors to undo stay-at-home orders & force businesses to open. Conservatives like Moore made the exact opposite argument when it came to a federal mandate to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
So I guess the new conservative position is that governors have the right to deny their struggling citizens healthcare by refusing to expand Medicaid even with full federal reimbursement but they have no right to protect them from a pandemic that will burden their health systems?
Governors are currently making decisions to enact stay-at-home orders or not, and they'll face the consequences of their decisions at re-election time based on the death tolls, just as conservatives envisioned, no? nytimes.com/interactive/20…
What Rosa Parks, MLK & the lawyers for the four plaintiffs in the actual legal case, Browder vs. Gale, argued was that the laws on who could sit where on Alabama buses had no standing because segregation was not just contemptible, it was unconstitutional. tolerance.org/magazine/browd…
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a refusal by black folks to prop up the bus system financially if it refused to serve them equally. It lasted a year & the resulting screaming, anger & threats frankly sound like those "lock her up!" protesters not Ms. Parks. history.com/this-day-in-hi… 
Is @StephenMoore really arguing that stay-home orders, designed to keep people from dying or spreading coronavirus are contemptible & unconstitutional? Are his armed, screaming protesters asserting a right to spread the virus? Is it discriminatory to stop them from spreading it?
If Stephen is going to toss around (and frankly despoil) Ms. Parks' name, he really ought to spell out what about these "protests" (some of which he himself is planning) is similar to her stand. Demanding to infect others for profit isn't civil rights. politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
