Drew Holden takes a look at the 'evolution' of Stacey Abrams from calling voting laws 'Jim Crow in a suit and tie' to accepting voter ID

Brett T. | 5:42 PM on June 21, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous thread, the publisher of USA Today regretted its oversight in allowing Georgia governor and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams to go back and stealth-edit her op-ed when Major League Baseball’s boycott of the state didn’t fly with the public. She’d softened on her stance of the All-Star Game moving out of Atlanta over Georgia’s “restrictive” new voting law, and now that Democrats know they need Joe Manchin on their side, they’re softening on voter ID, too, with Abrams claiming that nobody ever opposed “having to prove who you are to vote.”

Here’s Drew Holden taking a look at the Washington Post’s new piece on Abrams’ “evolution” from “Jim Crow in a suit and tie” to, yeah, voter ID is OK.

In the last two months, @staceyabrams has gone from calling proposed voting laws “Jim Crow in a suit and tie” to something no one ever objected to and, rather than rightly point out the gaslighting, @washingtonpost and @AaronBlake called it “an evolution” pic.twitter.com/n8XDYelxru

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) June 21, 2021

The piece calls the new tone from Dems “a significant rhetorical concession” and I really just can’t imagine any member of the media treating this bald-faced hypocrisy the same if Abrams had an R after her name.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) June 21, 2021

Abrams and the Democrats lied about voter IDs, slandered their Republican colleagues as racist, and now are backtracking because polling has – once again – shown that the American people support voter ID laws.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) June 21, 2021

And yet this naked, craven effort to rewrite history is being treated by the Post and others not as a disgusting political low-blow but “Democrats trying to focus on the art of the possible while not wanting to look like they have abandoned their past principles.”

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) June 21, 2021

We’re seeing a coordinated attack on voting rights in this country. It’s Jim Crow in the 21st century, and it must end.

Congress must enact legislation to make it easier for all eligible Americans to access the ballot box and prevent attacks on the sacred right to vote.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 15, 2021

Shut up.

Related:

Now Stacey Abrams tells CNN that nobody ever opposed ‘having to prove who you are to vote’ https://t.co/4EsAZ5HCkb

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 17, 2021