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It’ll Be Funny to Explain the 2020s Atlanta MLB All-Star-Game Debacle in the Future

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred at the 2022 MLB Winter Meetings at Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif., December 7, 2022.

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In the future, a baseball fan will be looking at a list of MLB All-Star Games and wonder what happened in 2021. The host city was supposed to be Atlanta, but it was moved to Denver.

He’ll read that the State of Georgia had passed a voting law that would all but end democracy. Republicans in the state were seeking to make it impossible for Democrats to win. They were targeting racial-minority voters and seeking to suppress their turnout. The basic right to vote was under threat.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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