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    Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. “While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions.

Chief Justice John Robert's, 2013 following the Supreme Court's decision dismantling the core of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Thank god overt racism is a thing of the past, hey, Roberts?

The only thing that changed this week is that Trump discarded any last semblance of subtlety in his appeal to a racist base. He was dog whistling before, and that was despicable, but it still gave everybody a moral back door- the ability so say "you're reading too far into this." What now? Why have we met the past three days with anything less than unanimous outrage? What has happened to us?


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