I Like This Quote on Voter Suppression

Talking about clueless Democratic politicians in Washington:

There are entirely too many Democratic senators and establishment folks who do not see the existential threat to their own jobs if these voter suppression laws are allowed to stand. They think they can still convince that middle-of-the-road white person that left the party during the Reagan years. And they’d never come back, but they’re still trying to go get that Reagan Democrat. They don’t understand that the base of their party is these Black and brown people who turn out for them. They don’t understand that they cannot win if they do not have overwhelming turnout from Black and brown communities and win those communities 8-to-2 if we’re talking about Black people and 6-to-4 if we’re talking about brown people. 

They can’t win without those numbers. And they don’t understand that. And so they don’t realize that these voting suppression laws are an existential threat to their own positions.