Ron DeSantis decries a "scumbag" racist murderer, and Lionel faces a bully

an Editorial Cartoon, a Candorville comic strip, and an animation

This political cartoon, as seen at Comics Kingdom, is free. But paid subscribers could scroll down and see a timelapse video of the creation of this cartoon:

In 1932, the New State Ice Company (also known as Corporate Karen) sued Liebmann for selling ice without a permit. The case landed in the Supreme Court, which ruled against New State, striking down Oklahoma’s requirement that businesses selling ice obtain a permit. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, famous for helping develop the the right to privacy (a right recently aborted by the current illegitimate Federalist Society Supreme Court) as a fundamental right in Constitutional law, wrote in the

majority opinion that "a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

That’s how an obscure 1932 Supreme Court ruling led to one of the most profound and enduring aphorisms about the U.S.A.’s federalist system: “states are the laboratories of democracy.”

But that’s not a truism anymore.

As Lemont discovers below, the corollary is also true: states are the laboratories of fascism, tyranny, and other random assholery (which, if it isn’t a word, it should be). And in the Internet age, what happens in one state (particularly the RED variety) now quickly spreads to others.

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