While you should not have faith in the honesty of a politician you should have at least a little faith in their greed for power.
It does not serve a State politicians greed for power to want Federal politicians robing them of that power.
Remember everything the Federal Government doesn’t have in terms of power the State has by default, therefore every encroachment upon the rights of the states or the people by the Federal government is a direct threat to the power of State politicians.
You don’t have to trust state politicians to defend you out of some civic duty to our Constitution, they will do so out of their own desire to have control over the State rather then letting Washington usurp that control from them.
They aren’t robbing them of any power, they are still to free to persue statism on the state level on top of federal statism.
I have 4 levels of statist government over me.
The problem is socialists not popularly elected Senators. I want them all gone. It doesn’t matter to me if the crappy leftist policy is being enforced by the federal or state government. It’s screws me either way.
Several rat Senators are recent gubernatorial appointees. Every single one voted for Obama care and their rat Governors are glad they did. They are FOR it. Democrats in state legislatures are FOR it. Poll them and you’d see. Most rat pols are for it no matter what level of government they “serve” at.