But consumer protections are for "liberal nanny states" that "no one wants to live in".

It's the problem of a two-party system. Apparently wanting easy online cancellation means you need to support an entire debt-ridden, tax-heavy, welfare state that encourages high crime rates, violent criminal releases, and penalizes self-defense.

Well, there's a mechanism for that. I believe other states' residents don't care as much about these things, though. For instance, the amount of work required to make this law in North Dakota is pretty low, but I don't think it's going to happen.

I think it should just be a federal law enforced by the CFPB. The level of obviousness, in terms of consumer protection, is very high here.

Republicans strongly oppose the CFPB:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protectio...

Maybe the FTC? CFPB is solely concerned with financial institutions. They're not going to care too much about newspaper subscriptions.

Ah okay, I thought that they enforced consumer finance stuff more broadly.

It won't happen, because it would extract less profit for shareholders.