Trump’s staggering inferiority complex clearly is just one of two reasons he’s telling the biggest version yet of a lie that his party has been telling about voter fraud for years. Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party’s political strategy for a while. Now that plan is getting a major boost from a president who has no problem just making stuff up. Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that’s the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing. When they can’t vote, problem solved.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 19:42 UTC