The GOP has this really nasty habit of taking a winning issue, staring at it for three seconds, and then somehow finding a way to trip over its own shoes and crap all over the base.
The SAVE Act should’ve been the easiest layup in modern politics. Make people prove they’re American citizens before they register to vote. Duh. That’s it. That’s the big scary “extremist” idea Dems and their media allies want everyone to fear. Secure American elections is now a radical idea.
But the truth is, normal people don’t fear it. They actually support it, because it’s common sense. You need an ID for nearly everything else in adult life, but somehow the left wants voting, the one thing that determines who runs the country, to operate on some goofy honor system.
The fact that the GOP and Dems don’t want this should tell you the ugly story of US politics.
And now, thanks to a new Washington Post analysis, the fight over the SAVE Act looks even more revealing. The piece is framed as a warning about “disenfranchisement,” but many people online are reading it another way: as an accidental admission that requiring proof of citizenship could move key states to the right.
That’s the hook. That’s the problem for the left and right. Because the truth is, the establishment GOP has way more in common with the left than it does with MAGA.
Of course, nobody at WaPo is coming right out and saying illegals are voting in our elections in huge numbers, because that would ruin their whole act. But their own analysis makes one thing super clear… if the government starts requiring citizenship documents to register to vote, the electoral map would likely shift, and in some places, shift really hard toward Republicans.