Grocery stores and the DMV are probably in a long-running competition for which one Trump has managed to avoid for the longest period of time. Without wading into the debate over whether voter ID laws have utility on the merits, consider how Trump tried to sell it: with an immediately obvious untrue example. We should not, however, be surprised that Trump’s pitch for voter ID laws was based on an obviously inaccurate argument. Of course, then, Trump is arguing that voter ID laws are needed because (insert tangential and possibly erroneous reason). That this bit of misinformation was immediately and obviously untrue to any listener doesn’t change any of the calculus underlying Trump’s pitch.

Source: Washington Post August 01, 2018 13:33 UTC