These days, Republicans may be losing politically and resorting to increasingly anti-majoritarian means — gerrymandering, filibuster abuse, voter suppression, activist Supreme Court decisions, legislative terrorism — to nullify election results.
I get it, there is a practical reason for the GOP's indulging in Mr. Trump's distorted views, the idea of rampant voter fraud and its legislative effects may help them ensure voter suppression and increase their hopes of staying in office after 2018.
No less surprising was the subsequent resurgence of the Iranian reform movement culminating in major gains in last year's legislative elections, only a handful of years after the violent suppression of the Green Movement.
Its legislative priorities include reforming the criminal justice system and combating voter suppression.
Federal courts invalidated voter-suppression laws and ordered North Carolina to redraw twenty-eight legislative districts.
Stephen Harper's Conservative government is attempting to bring US style voter suppression to Canada in what some critics believe is a new legislative bid masquerading as electoral reform.
But even with the pending legislative action, there remains an enlarged sense of the theatrical around the question, as if some participants on each side are enjoying the quirky rhetoric of both the revolt and its suppression.
The suppression is breathtaking.
