Georgia Voting Law: Democrats Losing Argument, Moving Goalposts

A good sign that someone is losing an argument is when they have to continually change the focus of their criticism. An even better sign is when they are reduced to impugning the motives of their opponents as a substitute for showing that their opponents are actually doing something bad.

We started off with “Jim Crow on steroids” hype about the Georgia election law, a shameful insult to black Americans who lived through real segregation and oppression. The proponents of this theme know it to be false, as their behavior makes clear. Indeed, many Democrats are openly salivating at the opportunity to increase voter turnout based on campaigns against the Georgia law — hardly what happened during Jim Crow. As The Hill put it in an article titled “Democrats see opportunity as states push new voting rules”:

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Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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A good sign that someone is losing an argument is when they have to continually change the focus of their criticism. An even better sign is when they are reduced to impugning the motives of their opponents as a substitute for showing that their opponents are actually doing something bad.

We started off with “Jim Crow on steroids” hype about the Georgia election law, a shameful insult to black Americans who lived through real segregation and oppression. The proponents of this theme know it to be false, as their behavior makes clear. Indeed, many Democrats are openly salivating at the opportunity to increase voter turnout based on campaigns against the Georgia law — hardly what happened during Jim Crow. As The Hill put it in an article titled “Democrats see opportunity as states push new voting rules”: