How Trump is exposing the ugly truth about the GOP plan to retake power

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
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Mar 24, 2021
The GOP has now adopted an institutional policy of mass voter suppression, justified as "election integrity." But Trump himself is revealing what this phrase really means: Make it harder to vote wherever possible, expressly to help Rs win future elections:

Opinion | How Trump is exposing the ugly truth about the GOP plan to retake power
Inconveniently for Republicans, the former president keeps giving away their game.
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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Amazingly, the RNC has tapped a leading proponent of Trump's "stop the steal" campaign to head its "election integrity" project.

But we're not obliged to pretend GOP officials "really believe" the election was stolen from Trump.

The truth is much worse:

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The Republican strategy for retaking power depends in no small part on undertaking maximum voter suppression and other anti-majoritarian efforts all over the country — while piously pretending this has nothing to do with diluting the impact of Democratic-aligned voters or keeping them from casting ballots at all.

The problem is that Donald Trump keeps giving away the game. The former president, who regularly proclaimed his corruption and contempt for democracy as positive attributes, keeps revealing the actual goal of the strategy right in broad daylight.

The New York Times has a remarkable new report that exposes the breadth of GOP voter suppression efforts. Party leaders and their conservative allies are seeking to coordinate the passage of bills — in multiple states — designed to make it harder to vote, justified by mythic voter fraud.

For instance, the Times reports, those efforts played a role in a radical package of bills moving forward in Georgia, which includes ending vote-by-mail for most voters and limiting Sunday voting drives, which are heavily utilized by African Americans.

GOP leaders and their allies plan to export statutory language restricting voting to other states, and in many of them, extensive such efforts are already underway.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. It seems like it would be a lot less work to just listen to voters...

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and work to attract more people to vote for your cause.

But what do I know? I'm just a libtard.

[ret5hd]

3. But less profitable.

Do you realize what it costs to line a coal ash pit?
Or what it costs to prevent "accidental" methane gas releases at a well head?
Or the opportunity costs of preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon area?
Or the true costs of overhauling the police so they don't randomly kill black people for fun and street cred?
Or the costs of changing our foreign policies so the Monroe Doctrine doesn't rape our southern neighbors?

My gawd...what a hell hole you wish for!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. To the Greatest Page for this important post! n/t

[soothsayer]

4. Everything they want to do to make voting harder should be applied to buying/owning guns

Well should be proposed anyway

[tecelote]

5. They know...

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” - Trump

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." - Karl Rove