TEASER: Democracy and Its Discontents
Matt and Sam analyze the Republican Party's assault on voting rights in state legislatures across the country—from what the recently passed bill in Georgia actually does to the deranged lies being used to justify these efforts.
Know Your Enemy · Sam Adler-Bell, Matthew Sitman
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In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are unleashing a fierce assault on voting rights. Hundreds of proposals aimed at restricting ballot access are being considered, and in a few states—most notably Georgia—have already become law. These obvious efforts at suppressing turnout have been justified by the deranged lie that Donald Trump had a landslide victory stole from him in November, along with the usual evidence-free worries about election integrity peddled by conservatives. Of course, the debates all this has generated have been remarkably unintelligent—just more fodder for the culture wars.
Matt and Sam breakdown where voting-rights bill have been passed, what provisions they include, and how it all fits into both the GOP's current strategy of minority rule and the right's longstanding suspicion of mass democracy.