• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    Trump started it. Back in 2020 there was a coronavirus stimulus package going through the legislature. The Democrats tried to include some amendments that would make it easier for people to vote during the stimulus. Basic stuff like easier mail in voting and extended voting days. Trump’s reaction on Fox News showed that they clearly understand that more voting is bad for Republicans.

    “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”

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      Just to clarify, Trump started and enabled the “talking out loud” part of many subjects, not the idea that making voting harder for some demographics helps Republicans. That’s been a decades long thing, about as long as the big switch of parties. It’s part of what drove “Eisenhower Republicans” to be life long Democrats.

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        Mexicans are rapists. Military heroes who endure captivity are weak losers.

        I wish any of it made a fucking iota of difference to his pithed cult.