“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”Her stated reasoning is about paperwork — she says 60% of Michiganders don’t have a passport, and 80% of married women nationwide have changed their name since birth, so requiring passport or birth-certificate-matched ID to register would trip up legitimate voters.
Maybe that’s the whole story.
But sit with the sentence itself for a second: a sitting U.S. senator is saying, out loud, that 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 is enough to end her party’s winning streak in every state, not just hers.
- 𝐈𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦.
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