Ron Brownstein, a senior editor for The Atlantic, argued that many Republican-led states are essentially creating completely different countries within the borders of the United States.

Appearing on CNN, Brownstein argued that many red states seem to be in a race to roll back a wide array of freedoms, with a particular focus on women’s rights and LGBTQ rights.

“I think that they are building a nation within a nation on all sorts of issues: LGBTQ rights, voting rights, abortion rights, these book bans, classroom censorship,” he said.

He then argued that these efforts have created areas of the country where many areas have vastly different legal landscapes for citizens simply depending on where they live.

“That same effort that in many ways is attempting to reverse what has been six decades of nationalizing more rights and creating common rights that are available in every state,” he said. “I mean, we are moving back toward a pre-1960s world where your basic civil liberties depended much more on […]