May 14, 2021 ☼ voting ☼ gop ☼ heritage
Source: Mother Jones - Link
Republican legislators claim they’re tightening up election procedures to address (unfounded) concerns about fraud in the 2020 election. But what’s really behind this effort is a group of conservative Washington insiders who have been pushing these same kinds of voting restrictions for decades, with the explicit aim of helping Republicans win elections. The difference now is that Trump’s baseless claims about 2020 have given them the ammunition to get the bills passed, and the conservative movement, led by Heritage, is making an unprecedented investment to get them over the finish line.
This has been a goal for decades. It will work for a while, but demographics are against it, unless even less democratic measures are taken. The idea seems to be to create a one-party state run by oligarchs.