{"id":62234,"date":"2024-07-18T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62234"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:40:23","slug":"trump-and-the-gop-show-their-fear-of-veterans-by-suing-to-make-it-harder-for-them-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62234","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the GOP Show Their Fear of Veterans By Suing to Make it Harder for Them to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has never been particularly interested in democracy. For decades they have endeavored to suppress voting and place obstacles in front of citizens (primarily Blacks and other minorities, and Democrats in general) who wish to exercise their rights. It was so bad that, until a recent Supreme Court ruling<\/a><\/strong>, states with a history of racial discrimination were subject to a “preclearance”<\/em> requirement in the Voting Rights Act mandating federal approval before changing election policy.<\/p>\n

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The core tactics employed by Republican campaigns have been to obstruct voting by imposing pointless voter ID laws, prohibiting opportunities to vote via early access and mail-in ballots, and challenging election outcomes. All of which were designed shrink the electorate to just the privileged few who Republicans approve of. They justify it by making wholly unsupported allegations of rampant voter fraud for which they have never been able to produce a shred of evidence. Well, except for GOP fraud…<\/p>\n

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This week the Donald Trump campaign, along with the Republican National committee (RNC) that is headed up by his daughter-in-lawlessness, Lara Trump, filed a lawsuit to prohibit voter registration of fully eligible citizens, and specifically veterans. As reported by Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“The Republican National Committee and Donald Trump\u2019s campaign have filed a lawsuit in federal court against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over their efforts to make voter registration more accessible. […] More specifically, the legal challenge takes issue with a directive Whitmer issued last year, which, under the National Voter Registration Act, designated local Small Business Administration (SBA) offices as well as the Department of Veteran Affairs offices as voter registration sites.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What better way for Trump to demonstrate his support for veterans – the folks he regards as “suckers and losers”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> – than to make it more difficult for them to register and vote? And not only veterans, but small business owners as well. Trump surely doesn’t want hordes of “mom and pop”<\/em> shop owners getting in the way of the wealthy corporations that fund his campaign and pay his legal bills.<\/p>\n

More to the point, this is the MAGA GOP’s effort to keep those they consider “undesirable”<\/em> from voting. They have also opposed voter registration at the DMV, or at colleges, or at public assistance offices, or anywhere else that ordinary Americans might have cause to go. However, they have never objected to voter registration drives and luxury hotels or country club golf resorts.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit is also an attempt by “Trump and his allies [to] set themselves up to cry voter fraud in any state the former president might lose in the fall.”<\/em> He has already begun his incantations of voter fraud in expectation of his defeat. He and his cult devotees are insisting that the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat. In other words, Trump and his MAGA disciples have no intention of respecting the election results unless he is the winner. Which means that they might attempt another January 6th style coup to prevent President Biden’s reelection from being certified.<\/p>\n

America’s veterans and active military must recognize that Trump is is not on their side. At best he is using them for his own benefit. Which is true about every other voter group in the country. Trump has never cared about anyone but himself. And his actions, such as this lawsuit, continue to confirm that.<\/p>\n

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