An Unspeakable Consensus
Why are Democrats fighting over everything except domestic election interference?
How did you feel about the news that Wisconsin could have been stolen? It’s mostly gone away, inasmuch as it registered at all. There are endless other controversies about the 2016 election to talk about.
Wisconsin might not even be a controversy. Hardly anyone is talking about it. It’s easy enough to say the claims about Wisconsin make no difference. If you take the estimates of the 12,000 or 23,000 or 45,000 possible voters — mostly in Democratic strongholds — who were blocked or discouraged from voting in the presidential election, and you put them up against Donald Trump’s 23,000-vote margin of victory in the state, that difference may or may not have flipped the result, and even it it had flipped it, Trump still would have had the advantage over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College.
To say it didn’t matter, though, feels strange. A key swing state in a presidential election may well have been swung not by its citizens’ preferences but by the winning party’s voter-suppression efforts, efforts that were part of a coordinated national campaign, openly partisan and often openly racist, to keep the losing party’s voters away from the polls. In a democracy with party politics, this would seem to be a drastic…
