It’s Not Complacency That’s Paralyzing Democrats

David Frum: “Where Republicans control local power, they are building a new infrastructure of minority rule. They are gerrymandering districts, raising barriers to voting, biasing election administration, and politicizing election certification. There is nothing secret about this effort; everybody can see it happening.”

“Yet the members of the threatened, narrow Democratic majorities in Congress—the people who might seem to have the strongest motives to act—seem too paralyzed to respond…”

“It’s not blithe inattention that has stalled the Democrats’ voting-rights bills. It’s self-harming overreach by party activists.”