strom thurmond. he talked about thurmond, the anti-civil rights icon, who in the end supported the voting rights act. this is something that even republicans found necessary to do by massive margins in the past. that is both an indictment of republicans but also of democrats who won t do what needs to be done in order to get it passed. i wonder about what your reflections were on him talking so much about how the partisanship on this issue has calcified in a way we ve never seen before? well, i think it makes the case, right? for many of us, as you know, i cherish the work i ve done across the aisle. i ve passed a bunch of bills, as i ve mentioned many times. but the point is, they re not playing on this right now. even though, and that s why i think he felt it was important to make the case, in the past, democracy triumphed. it s more important than any divides between us. but right now, because of the large shadow of donald trump over the republican party, there are very few people
republicans until quite recently, all but unanimously supported voting rights, people like george w. bush and strom thurmond. he talked about thurmond, the anti-civil rights icon, who in the end supported the voting rights act. this is something that even republicans found necessary to do by massive margins in the past. that is both an indictment of republicans but also of democrats who won t do what needs to be done in order to get it passed. i wonder about what your reflections were about these things? i think it makes the case. i cherish the work i ve done across the aisle. i ve passed a bunch of bills, as i ve mentioned many times. but the point is, they re not playing on this right now. even though, and that s why i think he felt it was important to make the case, in the past,