re: #58 Charles Johnson

Exactly. The idea that this will “backfire” on the GOP is ridiculous. On the contrary, they’ve succeeded in convincing many gullible people that voter fraud is a serious problem and needs to be addressed.

It’s not going to “backfire,” and the only reason they’re pushing these laws is because they’ve crunched the numbers and know that if they can hoodwink enough people into supporting Voter ID, it will give them an advantage.

The GOP’s current platform can absolutely be made to be harmful to the GOP, in the same way that the old Gilded Age fell apart. But ‘backfire’ implies that it’s a self-fulfilling intrinsic result, which is assuredly untrue. It took active effort and real sacrifice to fight these forces a hundred years ago, and it will take active effort again.

‘Backfire’ suggests we can sit back and watch the whole rotten pile crumble from within. Maybe we could, with time, if we wanted to watch the country crumble with it… I don’t really like that route.