Many people say wait till we vote to do anything.
That may be the way things were done back in the day: Make change at the ballot box. These are not ordinary times now.
Women's March 2017.
The 2020 election is not ordinary.
Women's March 2019. (Jose Luis
Mangana / Associated Press).
The harsh attacks on voting are so often reported that we can take one report and speak for them all:
The F.B.I. has warned that the threat of Russian interference in American elections persists. Intelligence officials have said that Russia interfered throughout the midterm elections last year, and that those efforts are likely to intensify during the next presidential campaign.
Mihir Zaveri and Jacey Fortin, In 2016, Russians Worked to Discourage Black Voters, New York Times, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, p. A5. And not just Russians worked to discourage voters:
But domestic restrictions on voting, the vast majority of which are imposed by Republicans, proliferated in many states, the [National Urban League] report found.
To act as though ordinary ways will work in 2020 when they did not work in 2016 "is a recipe for disaster, and it's a lesson that should have been learned by now." Dahlia Lithwick, The 2020 Election's Approach is No Reason to Avoid Impeachment / Democrats Are Repeating a Mistake They Should Have Learned in 2016, Slate, May 6, 2019.
More of the same old, same old. Thinking that we are in a better place than 2016 has rightly been called "demented," even outright "insane." Id.
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