Up to 45,000 votes may have been suppressed in Wisconsin. Trump won the state by 22,000. https://t.co/vKywbYIBFZ pic.twitter.com/Ff75KeC17K
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 21, 2017
Under de senaste åren har USA snabbt gått från att ha varit en demokrati till en icke+demokrati där nu allt fler amerikaner i republikanska delstater fråntas sin rösträtt. En trend som fortsätter i allt snabbare takt.
Hur inför man en diktatur i en demokrati anno 2017? Det är enkelt, precis som i Ryssland så behåller officiellt de demokratiska institutionerna man fråntar tillräckligt många väljare deras rösträtt för att garantera seger för regeringspartiet.
Ari Berman skriver i Mother Jones: Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump. And possibly handed him the whole election.
On election night, Anthony was shocked to see Trump carry Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes. The state, which ranked second in the nation in voter participation in 2008 and 2012, saw its lowest turnout since 2000. More than half the state’s decline in turnout occurred in Milwaukee, which Clinton carried by a 77-18 margin, but where almost 41,000 fewer people voted in 2016 than in 2012. Turnout fell only slightly in white middle-class areas of the city but plunged in black ones. In Anthony’s old district, where aging houses on quiet tree-lined streets are interspersed with boarded-up buildings and vacant lots, turnout dropped by 23 percent from 2012. This is where Clinton lost the state and, with it, the larger narrative about the election….The impact of Wisconsin’s voter ID law received almost no attention. When it did, it was often dismissive.
Dom som förundras över hur nazisterna så lätt kunde ta makten i Weimartyskland 1933 kan idag se hur enkelt det är att förvandla en demokrati till en diktatur. Titta bara på dagens USA.