A robust and comprehensive new Voting Rights Act would do more to hobble the GOP in the years to come than killing the filibuster or adding DC and PR as states, simply because minority rule is so central to their electoral strategy.
https://twitter.com/AaronRHanlon/status/1321460351167352832
If we were to simply let people vote and let their votes determine who holds power, the Republican Party would experience an implosion that would likely take them a decade or more to recover from.
And yes, SCOTUS is a barrier, and no, statehood, filibuster reform, and voting rights aren't an either-or (either-or-or) proposition. But it's underappreciated how dramatic the effects of simply implementing basic democratic procedures would be to dismantling Republican power.
(While we're at it, we also need federal legislation imposing steep civil penalties for people who reply "we should do both" when someone tweets that "Doing X would do more to advance justice than doing Y or Z.")
And this is all essential to the project in January in the event of a Biden/Dem win. Put forward voting rights legislation, anti-gerrymandering legislation, federal voter registration reform, etc, etc. In both messaging and substance, position the Dems as the party of democracy.
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