Republicans have been committing election fraud right out in the open since 1964 and covering it up by yelling about “voter fraud.”
Remember the hours-long lines to vote we’ve seen on TV ever since the ’60s in minority neighborhoods? Those are no accident: They’re part of a larger election fraud program the GOP has used to suppress the vote for 60 years now.
This election year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is raising the stakes: He’s planning to put together a force of “election police” under his personal command to travel the state intimidating voters while pretending to look for “voter fraud.”
DeSantis is asking the GOP-controlled legislature to allocate nearly $6 million to hire 52 people to ‘investigate, detect, apprehend, and arrest anyone for an alleged violation’ of election laws. They would be stationed at unspecified “field offices throughout the state” and act on tips from “government officials or any other person.”
Meanwhile, the GOP in Texas is quietly recruiting 10,000 white volunteers “courageous” enough to go into Black and Hispanic polling places […]
Foul! Goldwater and DeSantis do not belong to the same frame. I am quite certain Goldwater would disassociate himself from today’s GOP.
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I think you are correct, Goldwater would loathe Trump and the Trumper movement and the new MAGAt Republican Party, their lack of ethics, their attack on democracy, their endless grifts and lies. Goldwater was one of the former Republican Party senators who went to Nixon and told him to resign or be impeached and convicted. Imagine what he would have told Trump.