Democrats Need to Choose a Path on Voting Rights
The Atlantic Democrats Need to Choose a Path on Voting Rights The people who need to mend their ways are not the supposedly complacent Democrats of the center—but the overambitious faction of the activist left. 6:00 AM ET Megan Varner / Getty Where Republicans control local power, they are building a new infrastructure of minority rule. They are gerrymandering districts, raising barriers to voting, biasing election administration, and politicizing election certification. There is nothing secret about this effort; everybody can see it happening. Yet the members of the threatened, narrow Demo...