My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump

[Nevilledog]

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Glenn Kessler
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Benjamin L. Ginsberg has been in the trenches of the GOP’s legal fights for decades. This must have been painful to write —> I’m a leading GOP election lawyer. The world should be ashamed of my party’s voter suppression tactics.

Opinion | My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump
Their voter suppression strategy is as un-American as it gets.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/01/ben-ginsberg-voter-suppression-republicans/

Benjamin L. Ginsberg practiced election law for 38 years. He co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multimillion-dollar effort to disenfranchise voters — first by seeking to block state laws to ease voting during the pandemic, and now, in the final stages of the campaign, by challenging the ballots of individual voters unlikely to support him.

This is as un-American as it gets. It returns the Republican Party to the bad old days of “voter suppression” that landed it under a court order to stop such tactics — an order lifted before this election. It puts the party on the wrong side of demographic changes in this country that threaten to make the GOP a permanent minority.

These are painful words for me to write. I spent four decades in the Republican trenches, representing GOP presidential and congressional campaigns, working on Election Day operations, recounts, redistricting and other issues, including trying to lift the consent decree.

Nearly every Election Day since 1984 I’ve worked with Republican poll watchers, observers and lawyers to record and litigate any fraud or election irregularities discovered.

The truth is that over all those years Republicans found only isolated incidents of fraud. Proof of systematic fraud has become the Loch Ness Monster of the Republican Party. People have spent a lot of time looking for it, but it doesn’t exist.

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[Cha]

1. Rt.. We Are.. They Need BLOWBACK in

kind

[Gothmog]

2. Ginsberg is a very strong attorney who has ethics

[JDC]

3. The world is ashamed. It's the GOP that is not

[Mariana]

4. "The world should be ashamed of my party's voter suppression tactics."

Why should "the world" be ashamed? The only shame is upon the Republican Party.

Mr. Ginsburg helped to bring this about. What he should be saying is, "I am ashamed to have been a Republican. I will make amends by working day and night for the rest of my life to defeat them."

[alwaysinasnit]

5. +1000

His mea culpa is all well and good, but is there anything else (other than writing about it) that he is doing to redeem himself?

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Gosh, Mr. Ginsberg, it took you four years to notice?

It was visible to many of us on the other side for years.

The world should be ashamed?

Nope. Ixnay. YOU should be ashamed. You and every voting Republican.

[ooky]

7. Time to take the G out of GOP. There is nothing grand about this party.

Old party is all that's left of them.