A party has chosen as one of its baseline membership belief — the sort of belief that makes it cohere it as party — the idea that it should never be allowed to lose an election.
It'd be death-knell for democracy if sustained, but institutional biases means there's no reckoning.
It'd be death-knell for democracy if sustained, but institutional biases means there's no reckoning.
https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1336841520058687491
This is also a party that's now been going to bat for poll closures, sinking the VRA, ruining the census, prison gerrymandering, expanding large-scale felony disenfranchisement & poll tax, restricting mail-in voting & voter registration, new rules against initiatives.
This is a party that's repeatedly been using *the bare fact that black people have voted* as evidence something is amiss.
This is party that's using *bare fact that its officials say there's fraud* as the only needed evidence there's a trust issue to remedy via restrictions.
This is party that's using *bare fact that its officials say there's fraud* as the only needed evidence there's a trust issue to remedy via restrictions.
The party leadership is happy to manufacture all of this, to be clear.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1337148205075746819
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