Greg Sargent, Washington Post: “As we hit the six-month anniversary of Jan. 6, the GOP’s radicalization against democracy continues to hurtle forward. And very few prominent Republicans will stand athwart that radicalization and yell, ‘Stop!’ House Republicans are now all but certain to try to sabotage the select committee examining the insurrection. GOP leaders still haven’t punished a far-right congressman for claiming Jan. 6 was an FBI plot. GOP candidates in the 2022 elections are actively campaigning on the lie that Donald Trump’s reelection loss was illegitimate. GOP voter suppression laws are getting worse. A group of Never Trump Republicans is now attempting to step into this breach by launching a new campaign to hold Republicans accountable for the party’s widespread voter suppression and election subversion efforts.”

“The group’s name: Republicans for Voting Rights.”

“As such, the campaign will also champion efforts to expand voting access and structurally protect democracy on multiple fronts. That’s not a widely held position among contemporary Republicans, to put it mildly. Which raises a question: Is it possible to meaningfully defend voting rights – and to defend the integrity of Trump’s loss as pivotal to the larger mission of protecting democracy – while remaining a member in good standing of today’s GOP? Some Republicans did defend the legitimacy of Trump’s loss and continue to advocate for the GOP to refrain from casting doubt on it. But they have faced appalling censure, and the new group hopes to help clear more space for such civic virtue going forward. ‘We need people like that in the party,’ Amanda Carpenter, a prominent Never Trump commentator and director of Republicans for Voting Rights, told me. ‘We’re better for it.'”