After Admitting "It's Always Been Republicans Suppressing Votes," Trump Advisor Says Party Will Get

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Even More Aggressive in 2020

Published on Saturday, December 21, 2019
by Common Dreams

"It's clear there's no law Donald Trump and his right-wing machine won't bend, break, or ignore to try to win the presidency."
by
Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Reporting on Friday shows a top advisor for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign caught on tape in November bragging of the Republican Party's history of voter suppression—and promising to go on the offensive in 2020.

The revelation came from the Associated Press in a report Friday on comments by Trump re-election advisor Justin Clark at an event in Madison, Wisconsin.

"Traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places," said Clark. "Let's start protecting our voters. We know where they are... Let's start playing offense a little bit. That's what you’re going to see in 2020."

AP reported that Clark's remarks show the Republican Party determined to use relaxed civil rights regulations to their advantage:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/21/after-admitting-its-always-been-republicans-suppressing-votes-trump-advisor-says

[ewagner]

1. The BATTLE OF WISCONSIN...

...will be brutal and epic...

The fate of the nation may depend on Wisconsin

[FormerDittoHead]

2. It doesn't get more clear than that...

"Let's start playing offense a little bit. That's what you’re going to see in 2020."

[bahrbearian]

3. K&R

[CrispyQ]

4. These people only ever favored representative government while it represented them.

Once demographics changed and women, minorities, and gays started demanding equality and equity in the system, then that representative government crap has got to go. It wasn't too hard to rig the system in their favor, either, since they were at the top of the food chain to start with. What's really disgusting is that 40% of our fellow citizens are A-OK with this as long as it's their side doing the oppressing.

[CousinIT]

5. Trump must remain in power to stay out of prison: Watch what he does after Senate acquits him

https://www.salon.com/2019/12/21/trump-must-remain-in-power-to-stay-out-of-prison-watch-what-he-does-after-senate-acquits-him/

The danger of impeaching Trump without removing him from office has always been that we will have blown the last “check” we have on him. When the Senate lets him off without even a slap on the wrist, Trump will be even more unrestrained than ever. Steel yourself. We’re about to get Donald Trump squared.

The last time he felt he’d gotten away with his crimes was when special counsel Robert Mueller failed to find evidence of a conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and the Russians during the 2016 election. Less than 24 hours after Mueller lamely testified as much to Congress, an apparently giddy Trump picked up the phone and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and tried to get yet another foreign leader to help him steal an election. He offered Zelensky a bribe to get him to investigate his likely opponent in 2020, Joe Biden, and tried to strong-arm Zelensky into making Ukraine the scapegoat for the 2016 Russian hacking of Democratic emails.

He won’t be able to stop himself from doing it again. He’s not going to stop at doubling down. He’ll triple down on everything he’s pulled over the last four years.

He’s going to call Putin and promise to lift the sanctions if he chips in to get him re-elected. He’ll call Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. He’ll talk to President Andrej Duda of Poland. He’ll reach out for help from every wannabe Mussolini from South America to Singapore. And he’ll get it. They’ll find ways to slip him money under the table. They’ll turn loose hit squads of trolls to infect American social media with campaign propaganda.

He’s going to put the full weight of his Department of Justice behind efforts to suppress the votes of poor people, young people, blacks, Latinos, women, the LGBTQ community — in fact anyone likely to vote Democratic. He’ll call for “investigations” of every Democratic presidential candidate who’s going up in the polls and announce he’s got “dirt” on every one of them. He’s going to unleash an army of surrogate liars to spread falsehoods about his opponent. He’s going to go from one rally a week to two to three; maybe he’ll hold a rally every other night. He’s going to turn Air Force One into an airborne criminal command post.

[crickets]

6. K&R for visibility

[JudyM]

7. K&R. Important.

[pecosbob]

8. Take the State Houses and Dems can stop this permanently

Take the White House and the Senate and we can make it a crime to disenfranchise citizens.