It’s clearly bad (and I’m a left wing liberal), I think we need to give states more rights even if it sometimes will hurt causes we like. I also think we need to do another thing that is similar but not the same which is to drive down the stakes of politics. The president needs less power, and the Supreme Court should be more predictable (for example each president nominates two new Supreme Court justices). Spreading out power is a form of decentralization.