Glaude on Voting Rights: Republicans Are Arguing that This Country ‘Must Remain White in the Vein of Old Europe’

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GLAUDE: “What we’re witnessing here is an extension of what we saw on January 6th. January 6th was the spectacle. Folks storming the Capitol, leaving feces. Threatening the lives of folks in the name of what the big lie, in the name of this idea that the election was stolen, in the name that the election was stolen by those people who lived in Atlanta, who lived in Philadelphia, who lived in Milwaukee. We know exactly what they were doing. Right? We know exactly what they were arguing for, that this country must be in some ways a country that must remain white in the vein of old Europe. And then this is an extension of that. We don’t have to sack the Capitol, we just simply have to pass laws to disenfranchise, to suppress the votes of those folk who we think ought to just simply shut up and be grateful. We need to understand this for what it is. It’s an extension of the seditionist, it's an extension of the insurrection. It's undemocratic at its core, Nicolle."