Wrapped in the flag and shredding the Constitution
Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University (“One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy“) reminds Jason Statler (LOLGOP) that the 2016 election that brought you Donald Trump “was the first presidential election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights Act.”
“REMINDER: The kind of fascism MAGA wants is the kind of fascism we’ve already seen here,” Statler posts.
Anderson continues:
And so Black voter turnout went down by 7 percent. And to chalk that up to just, “They couldn’t stand Hillary, and not that you had states that were now requiring really strict voter IDs, and the way that they were requiring these voter IDs was to figure out who had what types of IDs and then to write the law to privilege the kinds that whites disproportionately had. It was a way that they shut down early voting sites. It was the way that they shut down early voting days, the times when people could vote early. None of that went into that calculation of what could cause a 7 percent drop. It had to be because Black folks couldn’t stand Hillary and not because you had states that were erecting these obstacles, these barriers, to the ballot box.
There’s more, much more about conservative efforts to keep the “wrong people” from voting and on GOP legislatures ignoring (or thwarting) ballot measures passed to expand the franchise.
I’m tired.
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