In the last two months, @staceyabrams has gone from calling proposed voting laws “Jim Crow in a suit and tie” to something no one ever objected to and, rather than rightly point out the gaslighting, @washingtonpost and @AaronBlake called it “an evolution” 
The piece calls the new tone from Dems “a significant rhetorical concession” and I really just can’t imagine any member of the media treating this bald-faced hypocrisy the same if Abrams had an R after her name.
Abrams and the Democrats lied about voter IDs, slandered their Republican colleagues as racist, and now are backtracking because polling has - once again - shown that the American people support voter ID laws.
And yet this naked, craven effort to rewrite history is being treated by the Post and others not as a disgusting political low-blow but “Democrats trying to focus on the art of the possible while not wanting to look like they have abandoned their past principles.”
Spoiler alert: there are no “past principles” except the desire for power and a willingness to tar your opposition with the dirtiest -ist in the English language to get it.
Full piece is here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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