Erik Prince

Yeah.

Good question.

Yikes.

I drove out here.

I drove across Virginia and Tennessee.

And it reminded me of how great these states are and how big they are and how little they need the federal government.

And I think the founding fathers were brilliant in that, you know, pass the constitution, but they wouldn't pass the constitution without the 10

well, the Bill of Rights and the 10th Amendment is very specific.

It says, any power not specifically delegated to the federal government remains the sole purview of the states.

And I think it's very, we're well past due time for states to flex up and to tell the federal government no on a lot of things.

And if you're a border state and the federal government is clearly not enforcing border security,

Mount up your National Guard, mount up a militia, whatever it is, deport, capture, deport, do what's necessary to protect your citizens and tell Washington to go F right off.

And I think there's plenty of states that would join with them in doing that.

I think COVID showed that how important local government is, right?

Send your mayor or your county commissioner on whether you can go to the shopping mall or go to church or whatever.

Again, not an argument we ever should have even had, but you can see the default fascist in people that want to control.

And good governance should happen locally and state government should

is also much more accountable.

And I think one of the real problems with the federal government, particularly with the Senate, happened when back in the progressive era, in the 19-teens, like 110 years ago, when they passed an amendment which took away—it used to be that the state legislatures would elect the senators, U.S.

senators—