The GOP's Big, Shiny Voter Suppression Scheme Is Coming For You Photo by The White House Nobody wants to believe what they are seeing: the conversion of one of America's two major political parties into a cult of personality actively conspiring to overturn democratic rule in the United States. And doing so in broad daylight. Irish poet William Butler Yeats put it best in The Second Coming, a poem written during the turmoil leading up to his country's civil war: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." I don't guess I need to stipulate which is which.