Based on this @RonBrownstein piece, it seems the Biden admin's lack of emphasis on HR1/HR4 reflects their evaluation--and in my view, an accurate evaluation--of the relative threats democracy and Democrats.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
According to the article, Biden administration appears to believe that the GOP voter suppression laws, however odious, don't really pose a meaningful threat to democracy or Democrats.
It does appear to take the threat of election subversion--like refusal to certify--seriously
It does appear to take the threat of election subversion--like refusal to certify--seriously
One missed connection here is that HR1/HR4 doesn't do much to address to election subversion. These are reform bills; they just weren't conceived to secure the fundamentals of democracy, and the politics around these bills might be quite a bit different if they were.
Another thing missing is gerrymandering. Unlike, say, limiting mail voting, gerrymandering more fundamentally threatens to lower-case 'd' democratic values while hurting Ds quite a bit.
Yet, the word appears once in the article, as it's been overshadowed by the access debate
Yet, the word appears once in the article, as it's been overshadowed by the access debate
I've seen nothing that's really deliberately focused on this stuff (though there are a few provisions in HR1 that incidentally address a few subversion issues, fwiw)
https://twitter.com/hurricanexyz31/status/1397951693770346499?s=20
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