1/6. Voter suppression is crowding out policy. #VoterSupression
2/6. In a democratic system, a party campaigns on policy, and it sometimes wins, and it sometimes loses. It adjusts when it loses by changing its platform, rather than by changing the rules. The Republican Party is no longer doing that.
3/6. When Republicans lose national elections, other Republicans use control of statehouses to make the country less democratic.
4/6. Right now Republican state legislators are supporting over two hundred bills designed to make voting more difficult.
5/6. Voter suppression is racist: in its traditions, in its consequences, and in its intentions.
6/6 Voter suppression is racist authoritarianism. Making it impossible means starting from the principle that it's everyone's individual responsibility to vote—and America's collective responsibility to make it as easy as possible for every citizen to vote snyder.substack.com/p/voter-suppre…
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