Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Republicans block Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill" video.

  1. No one should be confused as to why republicans are launching a war on your right to vote. Especially when they're not even trying to hide the reason why. Trump openly admitted on fox that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party. Trump: “The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” And there you have it folks. It's going to be up to liberals/Dems to save America, and preserve our democratic Republic. "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --The Crisis by Thomas Paine
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  2. So while Republicans were engaged in pretend outrage over a pretend war on Dr Seuss and Mr. Potato Head, they were actually busy engaging in a real war on democracy. Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, one led not by outside revolutionaries intent on bringing down the system but by the very leader charged with defending it. In the 220 years since a defeated John Adams turned over the White House to his rival, firmly establishing the peaceful transfer of authority as a bedrock principle, no sitting president who lost an election has tried to hang onto power by rejecting the Electoral College and subverting the will of the voters — until now. It is a scenario at once utterly unthinkable and yet feared since the beginning of Trump’s tenure. Trump has gone well beyond simply venting his grievances or creating a face-saving narrative to explain away a loss, as advisers privately suggested he was doing in the days after the Nov. 3 vote. Instead, he has stretched or crossed the boundaries of tradition, propriety and the law to find any way he can to cling to office beyond his term. Trump’s efforts ring familiar to many who have studied authoritarian regimes in countries around the world. When Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt published their best-selling book, “How DemocraciesDie,” in 2018, warning that even the United States could slide into autocracy, they faced blowback from some who thought they were overstating the case. “We were criticized by some as alarmist,” Ziblatt, a government professor at Harvard University said. “It turns out we weren’t alarmist enough.”
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