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The Voter Fraud Fraud 2

Elie Mystal gets to the nub of the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement:

Yet black people in this country regularly vote en masse for the Democrat at levels that would make warlords sheepish. There are lots of white people who look at that and assume something is fishy. All the voter fraud commissions you read about are organized around the twin conceits that black people can’t possibly hate the Republican party this much, and if they do there can’t possibly be enough of us to swing an election.

Of course, up here in “evidence based” land, the black vote is the result of the Republican party’s ongoing strategy of ignoring black people and, latterly, being expressly racist towards black people in hopes of energizing racist white voters.

Much more at the link.

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2 comments

  1. vasiliy

    December 30, 2017 at 8:27 am

    Even in New Hampshire, which has a minuscule non-White population, Republicans can’t admit to themselves that their loss (Hillary beat Trump) was a result of anything but busloads of people coming across the border from Massachusetts.

    Where does Roy Moore claim that the bused-in voters that swung the election to Jones came from?

    There was a cynical realism that politicians of both parties shared long ago. They joked about the dead people voting in Cook County. Now the Republicans are so totally self-deluded that to them losing an honest election is unthinkable. Sad.

     
  2. Frank

    December 30, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    ” Now the Republicans are so totally self-deluded that to them losing an honest election is unthinkable.”

    Well said. And as long as they continue to immerse themselves in Fox News, they will remain deluded.

    (I gave up on TV news a long time ago. I read newspaper websites from all over. And, of course, I support my local rag.)