Chris Christie’s genius scheme to broaden GOP’s base: Attack voting rights!
"Lectures about democracy are a bit rich coming from a man who has taken every available opportunity to quash accountable government — including by waging an estimated 23 court fights to keep state documents sealed. But such rhetoric is now standard GOP fare, despite an abundance of evidence indicating that the “voter fraud” epidemic is a myth — and plenty more evidence that Republican voter suppression measures have disenfranchised legitimate voters, many of them racial and ethnic minorities. These are the tactics of an overwhelmingly white party concerned not with democracy, but with self-perpetuation. And Christie, who once seemed like the figure who could broaden the GOP’s base, has now joined their lot."
