Think they showed their IDs at the airport? https://t.co/vJKTlfB2Mt
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 12, 2021
This tweet reply was unlikely to have been written by anyone other than Jim Jordan, and we’re just going to operate under the assumption that he did, as Jordan is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee and we only saw this because he had retweeted it. It’s also the kind of characteristically simplistic, one-dimensional rant a man of Jordan’s background yells at the TV when he sees something he doesn’t like while he’s watching Fox News. Or tweets.
To the point he’s attempting to make: This is not about voter ID. Texas Democrats do not have any chance in hell of overturning the state’s already existing voter ID laws at this point. National Democrats have already ceded the fight on voter ID, just to call the bluff from Republicans.
Jordan is dragging voter ID into this for two reasons: The first is he’s a cunt. The second is because there’s no actually good argument against things like 24 hour and drive through voting. None. There’s no good reason to ban sending an unsolicited absentee ballot application to registered voters or allow only one ballot drop box for a county with 4 million residents. Even for a bad faith bastard like Jimbo does that require too much obtuse energy to properly address, so he goes for the simple bullshit his perpetually-aggrieved Caucasian audience understands.
As I’ve said before, a national voter ID standard is the last thing Republicans want. It’s not about proving who you are at a polling station, it’s about controlling who can vote. Make any government-issued photo ID valid for matching with a voter’s registration and, well shit, that means Skunkbutt County Community College students can just waltz on in and vote for a socialist and we can’t have that now can we? Much better to keep it malleable, and leave it up to the states to change them accordingly as the “quality” of the electorate shifts in the Dems’ favor.