What the complacency caucus gets wrong about the Georgia voting law
Meanwhile, don't give Coca-Cola, Delta too much credit for resistance. They were meek when it mattered most.
By Michael Hiltzik
Los Angeles Times
April 8, 2021 — 11:38am
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In accordance with the well-known principle that every political outrage eventually yields to an equal and opposite complacency, the initial uproar over Georgia's voter law has lately given way to a spate of "it's-not-that-bad-after-all" punditry takes.
A representative example of this comes from Will Saletan of Slate, who in a facile Twitter thread divides the law's provisions into "good stuff," "bad stuff" and "overhyped."