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New Jim Crow Laws Aren't Just About Suppressing Dems. They're Also About Shoring Up the GOP Base.
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
I keep saying that the GOP is not only counter-majoritarian but counter-factual. "The election was stolen!" is one layer of it. But another layer is that its own base believes that— so why vote? This requires a second order lie: we fixed it with new laws.
Qanon
New Jim Crow Laws Aren’t Just About Suppressing Dems. They’re Also About Shoring Up the GOP Base.
By now oceans of pixels have been spilled about the nationwide Republican efforts to suppress Democratic-leaning votes. The most recent legislation in Georgia, restricting voting in myriad discrimi...
washingtonmonthly.com
10:47 AM · Mar 27, 2021
Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
I keep saying that the GOP is not only counter-majoritarian but counter-factual. "The election was stolen!" is one layer of it. But another layer is that its own base believes that— so why vote? This requires a second order lie: we fixed it with new laws.
Qanon
New Jim Crow Laws Aren’t Just About Suppressing Dems. They’re Also About Shoring Up the GOP Base.
By now oceans of pixels have been spilled about the nationwide Republican efforts to suppress Democratic-leaning votes. The most recent legislation in Georgia, restricting voting in myriad discrimi...
washingtonmonthly.com
10:47 AM · Mar 27, 2021
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/27/new-jim-crow-laws-arent-just-about-suppressing-dems-theyre-also-about-shoring-up-the-gop-base/
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