Liberalism’s Favorite Laboratory?

Benen, Yglesias, and Krugman said what needed to be said about this Douthat column. I can’t decide which aspect of the argument is worse — the cherry picking of one “red state” or using a state in a fiscal crisis largely because it’s burdened by stupid conservative initiatives as a representative “liberal” state. I think it may be the latter. We would all disagree about what “liberalism’s favorite laboratory” would consist of, but I think we can all agree that it would not involve artificial limits on property taxes and supermajority requirements for tax increases.