No more sneaking around to steal elections for Republicans, they’re doing it in plain sight
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When Republicans started laying the groundwork for widespread, institutionalized voter suppression back under President George W. Bush—when then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired a U.S. attorney for refusing to manufacture voter fraud cases to prosecuNo more sneaking around to steal elections for Republicans, they’re doing it in plain sight
When Republicans started laying the groundwork for widespread, institutionalized voter suppression back under President George W. Bush—when then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired a U.S. attorney for refusing to manufacture voter fraud cases to prosecute—they couldn’t have imagined what they were unleashing because they couldn’t have imagined a Trump. For one thing, that was actually a scandal and Gonzales ended up resigning—Republicans wouldn’t support him. Then we had the nation’s first Black president and there is nothing Republicans won’t do to punish the nation’s voters for allowing that to happen—including not just electing Trump, but allowing his Big Lie to consume the party. It’s not that they didn’t see it coming. In 2019, well before the election, Trump was harping on voter fraud, creating a narrative for his eventual defeat at the polls. One former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Fergus Cullen, sounded downright prescient in retrospect. “People hold riots after their favorite football team loses the Super Bowl. […] There’s just no telling what people will do when they’re incited to it. We’ve never been in a situation like this, where there’s so much dry kindling across the landscape and we’ve got someone all too willing to light the match.” Again, that was Aug. 2019. Read more