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In 2006, the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized in the Senate by a 98-0 vote. It says a lot about American politics in 2021 that Manchin and Murkowski are now basically begging just 9 Republicans to join them.pic.twitter.com/G8i22voyLp
In 2006, there was such a strong norm of supporting the Voting Rights Act that even Trent "when Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him, we're proud of it" Lott voted in favor of renewing it. Nowadays it's politically acceptable to just explicitly oppose voting rights.
Actually, in 1982, even former Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond himself voted in favor of renewing the Voting Rights Acthttps://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/us/voting-rights-act-renewed-in-senate-by-margin-of-85-8.html …
The GOP knows it can only win if it cheats now.
I guess we know when approximately "shame" was still a thing the GOP could feel.
These two stories might be related.https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1394282156411789316 …
If they pass the Voting Rights Act first then Manchin knows he can quash For the People Act. He doesn't want FTPA to pass.
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When the GOP was able to convince enough people to vote their way, then they believe in democracy. Now that the GOP is thoroughly despised, they are all in on ending democracy.
And a GOP president signed it.
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