Voting rights scholar Carol Anderson joins us this week to explore the history of voter access in the United States, and how efforts to restrict the vote today resemble tactics from the past.
democracy, the institutions that are supposed to protect us, they don t protect themselves. they are upheld or eroded through a series of small, incremental decision. one book that helped me understand this it was called unmaking the presidency. they walk through all the norms that were undone during this period and show where they came from and why they matter. another that i thought was help ful was one person no vote by carol anderson, who shows how the fight over voting suppression and voting rights is ever present in the american story. and finally, the book is about the trump voters. the white working class books became such a sensation during this period, and i think that