Thread by @jbouie

when you are argue that most attempts at voter suppression have no particular partisan impact therefore fears on both sides are overstated, you are making a category error about the basis of opposition to those laws

i’ve argued before that i think this stuff isn’t likely to work and may well backfire on the republican party. but the effects aren’t the primary story here, the intent and motivation is.

this exactly. we are under no obligation to pretend that history and context do not exist

https://twitter.com/doc_pig/status/1378418103562989568

i should say, re: the first tweet, that you’re making a category error about why those laws exist in the first place. there was no meaningful voter fraud last year and by all accounts we had the most secure elections in our nation’s history.

this is a fight, on both sides, about the scope of democratic citizenship, about who can wield power and who must be subject to it. that’s it. that is the story.