Posted By Ruth King on December 24th, 2020
This unconstitutional proposal would obliterate the one-man/one-vote ideal.
J ust when it seems that the Left’s extremism has reached its outer limits, a new radical idea comes forward. Brandon Hasbrouck, a professor at Washington and Lee University, has taken to the pages of
The Nation, the Left’s preeminent periodical, to advocate so-called “vote reparations.”
It’s an idea more dangerous than it is farfetched (though it is that as well). The scheme recommends double-counting the votes of black Americans. This doesn’t merely set aside the one-man/one-vote ideal that our republic operates on; it obliterates it. This proposal wouldn’t pass constitutional muster, nor should it.Counting some votes more than others is a throwback to a bygone era that Americans black and white fought to overcome. Perhaps Hasbrouck has forgotten that one of the primary aims of Jim Crow was t