'Brian Kemp is probably going to get a lot of Georgians killed. He can accept this because he thinks he doesn’t answer to them. He’s right.' zakcheneyrice writes
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/AP/Shutterstock Brian Kemp is probably going to get a lot of Georgians killed. He can accept this because he thinks he doesn’t answer to them. He’s right.
Also bad: there’s no reason to believe that Kemp is up to the challenge of protecting his constituents from the potential outbreak he’s inviting. He spent weeks resisting a shutdown of the state to prevent the spread of infection, only to claim, once he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1, that he hadn’t known asymptomatic carriers of the virus were contagious.
Efforts to stifle voter turnout, especially of nonwhite people, to benefit Republicans aren’t a matter of conjecture — they’re a stated principle, articulated by proponents ranging from President Trump and the late GOP strategist Thomas B. Hofeller, whose work guided Trump’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, to Georgia’s own House Speaker David Ralston.
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