Really important for everyone to understand that this isn’t an exaggeration. Idaho is considering a law to just flat out make trans people (and family/friends supporting them) illegal, as a group of human beings, and then arguing other states have to help them prosecute.
https://twitter.com/brynntannehill/status/1501317203517448197
That’s the exact kind of lawmaking that led to Dred Scott and eventually the civil war, in that the South wanted their slave laws to override the anti-slave laws of northern states. SCOTUS sided with the South. It eventually broke the union.
The entire American body politic is completely sleeping at the wheel on the direct threat the American right is issuing to trans people right now, which is nothing short of attempting legalized genocide. Particularly parts c, d, and e of the United Nations’ definition of genocide 
Whether it’s the Idaho law or something else, at some point soon the Fascist American right will pass a law - on trans oppression or abortion restriction - that claims they can prosecute citizens who leave their state.
At that point, unless SCOTUS is significantly reformed, we will be on an inevitable path to the next Dred Scott decision and blue states being told they have to be governed by laws created in red states (it will never apply in reverse). We’re already pretty far down that path.
Which is all to say we have no idea how terrifying things will - not could, will - get when/if GOP ever has unified control of Congress/POTUS again. It won’t be (just) tax cuts and healthcare rollback. It’ll be wide scale oppression and genocidal lawmaking.
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