Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Opinion | Among GOP candidates imitating Trump, a repulsive pattern emerges - The Washington Post

…Behold the logical extension of this Trumpist trope: Voting in urban strongholds is suspect; voting in heavily Republican outlying areas is above reproach; and the former justifies more voter suppression to maximize gains from the latter…
…There is a long tradition in U.S. politics of justifying racially targeted restrictions on voting — or even outright authoritarian rule — with the claim that the targets of those tactics have no business voting at all, that allowing them a say in who rules is itself a form of tyranny over the "rightful" voters…


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