Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
Rich Lowry
Editor-in-Chief, Rich Lowry, takes on the Left, and explains today's events in the context of America's remarkable history.
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Does Hakeem Jeffries Not Know What Jim Crow Was?
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s routine invocation of Jim Crow-era rhetoric to criticize modern voter integrity legislation diminishes the historical reality of actual state-sponsored disenfranchisement. Rich breaks down why equating basic voting safeguards—such as voter ID requirements and routine voter roll maintenance—to legal segregation and violent voter suppression trivializes the genuine horrors of the Jim Crow South. From highlighting how modern voting participation remains historically high across all demographics to exposing how progressive leaders weaponize extreme racial hyperbole for partisan turnout, Rich dismantles Jeffries’s historical analogies. Watch Rich’s full breakdown, leave your reaction below, and subscribe to National Review!
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