Judging by the unhinged reaction this past week to the first public meeting of President Trump’s blue-ribbon voter fraud panel, progressives are terrified.
They’re fearful that these election experts are actually going to do the job they’ve been given — uncovering the extent to which the nation’s voter rolls are vulnerable to fraudulent activity. How else to explain the panic and shots fired before the commission even met?
“This is such a threat to democracy, this commission, this voter suppression commission,” huffed MSNBC analyst and Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter on MTP Daily (Meet the Press Daily). “. Raising doubts about the legitimacy of an election is anti-democratic. . if we get into a situation like a banana republic situation where every election, nobody believes the returns, we’re in a heap of trouble,” he moaned.
Well, yes, but surely he’s heard about the Democrats’ and the media’s obsessive Russian conspiracy theories. Bet he won’t tell them to shut up and get a grip.
Mr. Alter unwittingly made the case for the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity’s existence — the need to restore confidence in the honesty of our election process. He chooses to ignore that the federal voter integrity panel is filled with people from both political parties who have on-the-ground experience rooting out vote fraud.
Samantha Bee, whose crudely named “Full Frontal” videos on TBS are an alt-left mockery of all things good and decent, went on an eight-minute rant against Mr. Trump and the commission. She portrayed Vice Chairman Kris Kobach as a Klansman, panelist J. Christian Adams as a garden variety racist, and panelist Hans von Spakovsky as a ****.
