Opinion: The war over democracy is going to get a lot nastier
Stacey Abrams responds to President Trump. By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 12 at 4:11 PM Last week, House Democrats passed a sweeping pro-democracy bill that, among many other reforms, would make voting easier in multiple different ways. This is widely being treated as a “message bill,” since it has no chance of going anywhere in the GOP-controlled Senate.
Brownstein looks at the evolving war over voting in the context of the country’s changing demographics, and how that is impacting each party. As Brownstein notes, with Democrats increasingly reliant on a rising coalition of minorities and young people, they will also be harder pressed to knock down barriers to their participation.
In each state the Republican majorities have used that power to approve either restrictions on voting -- such as tougher voter identification laws -- partisan gerrymanders or both, making it more difficult for that emerging nonwhite electorate to overturn their dominance. ... The intended contrast was with President Trump, who has used the White House bully pulpit to endorse long-running GOP voter suppression tactics in the name of combating fake voter fraud. Trump took this to new levels, even setting up a phony voter fraud commission to employ government resources to make the voter fraud lie into a phony truth, but this was so transparently based on nonsense that it crashed and burned.
At the same time, Democrats are more committed to policing abuses in their own ranks that they used to carry out with abandon. When New Jersey Democrats tried to pull off a gerrymandering scheme, a national outcry from progressives and Democratic lawmakers and officials forced them to abandon it.
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