Of course, voter suppression is as American as apple pie.18 The Jim Crow system was premised on it. So was Republican electoral strategy. As we mentioned, Republican strategist Paul Weyrich said, “I don’t want everybody to vote,” long before Donald Trump was on the scene. Four decades later, in April of 2021, a spokesperson for Heritage Action, a conservative lobbying group that Weyrich founded, boasted about her organization’s role in drafting voter suppression laws for Republican-controlled legislatures.19
Long history of voter suppresion.
