Redux: Vote nullification is KEY, NOT voter suppression, which we can beat.
This was highlighted on Nicole Wallace's show yesterday, and for good reason.
The Republicans know that the voters will have limited power to punish them if their fascist putsch is ultimately unsuccessful. It's obvious to them, as it is to those who spend even a little time following politics, that in a very few years, due to changing demographics alone, it will be almost impossible for them to retain national power via honest elections and vote tabulations.
They are keenly aware of the fact that if their anti-democracy plot fails, the only penalty the voters could give them would be to take power away merely for the few years between now and when demographics alone will do the trick. So they are risking at most a few years of power that they might not even secure, versus their dream of achieving a permanent dictatorship.
Therefore, they have cued up the voter suppression efforts, making sure to include particularly absurd elements, hoping that the focus of the press and the Democrats will be on the forest of suppressive efforts, and NOT the tree, i.e., voter negation. Remember that the suppressive effort that garnered the most publicity by far in the period when the Georgia voter suppression bill was debated and passed was the prohibition on giving out water and food to those waiting in line to vote, which is EXACTLY why they put that provision in the bill.
Rarely highlighted was the ability the GOP was giving itself to simply declare that a Republican candidate who fairly lost an election was in fact the winner, irrespective of the will of the voters. The thing is….voter negation is only one of several elements of the Georgia legislation, but as I wrote above, it’s really the only one that matters!
They obviously are not risking much. Yes, they have nothing to lose. Yes, they will stop at nothing.
Edited to add a period.
