… Want to fix an election? No problem. Just make up a story that the other side is trying to rig the election—and meanwhile try to rig the election. …
Watergate was a struggle over the Constitutional powers and accountability of a president, and, alarmingly, the president and his aides attempted to interfere with the nominating process of the opposition party.
But the current voting rights issue is even more serious: it’s a coordinated attempt by a political party to fix the result of a presidential election by restricting the opportunities of members of the opposition party’s constituency—most notably blacks—to exercise a Constitutional right. [cont.]
Elizabeth Drew, New York Review of Books