My Turn: Denying the Revolution mactrunk Published: 4/12/2021 4:08:25 PM The new Georgia law placing restrictions on voting has predictably — and justifiably — generated a great deal of moral outrage across the nation. The law limits early voting, and increases the power of the Republican legislature to interfere in locally run elections. These measures are based on the totally unsupported theory that the 2020 election witnessed significant voter fraud. The bizarre provision of the Georgia law that appears to make it unlawful to bring water to a potential voter waiting on line has been the object of the most ridicule nationally. But the reaction to the law — like so much of the current rhetoric attacking “white supremacy” — is wildly exaggerated and has provided an opportunity for left wing Democrats and even centrist liberals to promote absolutely terrible history. Chief among these violations is the claim that the Georgia law somehow represents a return to the “Jim Crow” system of white supremacy that dominated the Southern United States during the first half of the 20th century.