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The American Mind

Totem and Taboo | The Roundtable Ep. 98

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

California is making noise about becoming a “sanctuary state” for abortions. Everything that hurts Democrats is “voter suppression.” And Ron DeSantis wants 200 people to help him with vaccinations and natural disasters, which is insurrection or tyranny or something. Our editors spend some time in bizarro world parsing the woke lies.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

This is how the voter suppression logic works.

0:06.9

I mean, look, I wish we had property requirements

0:09.5

for voting in this country.

0:10.6

Like, I'm a radical about this, but there are,

0:15.0

and I'm kind of joking, but this conversation

0:17.9

is basically happening in terms of like,

0:19.3

should everybody that just wanders in without an ID

0:22.9

be able to vote, or should we maybe check whether

0:25.1

their signature matches up with their driver's license

0:28.1

or other, you know, official identification?

0:30.9

And the Democrat line is that because any sort of,

0:36.1

any sort of rules about this might cause

0:39.2

there to be, you know, fewer black voters

0:42.0

in certain contexts.

0:43.0

Well, then that's just a repeat, you know,

0:44.8

I mean, here's Abrams herself.

0:46.8

She says, you know, it's protecting the vote

0:48.9

from the undesirable, and it's defending the integrity

0:51.9

of the vote for the necessary few.

0:54.4

Unfortunately, in Georgia, that historically has meant

0:57.4

distancing the right to vote from communities of color,

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