Jonathan Chait has an excellent piece at New York magazine, making the same point I did last week; Republicans aren’t waging a “war” against black voters. It’s merely a sustained, unrelenting skirmish—kind of a skirmish to the death. Jon catches the National Review with its pants, morals, and intellect at half mast, “explaining” why the Republicans are right to make it difficult for Democrats to turn out “their” vote. Because this is how they do it! Democrats “go down to the local homeless shelter, day-labor corner, or wino encampment, pull up with vans, and distribute such benefits as may be motivational in exchange for the effort of the denizens therein* to cast their ballots.”
So it’s totally not a racial thing.
*”Denizens therein”! Ca-lassy!
