‘There Will Be No Country if We Don’t Have Historic and Epic Voting in 2024’
With political violence ramping up, historian beseeches Americans to go to the polls
With the spectre of political violence growing in the United States, Americans will have to show up at the polls next year.
Otherwise, the nation as it's been known likely will disappear, according to a prominent author and historian.
Former president Donald Trump mused in an interview Thursday that he or another Republican president could use the Department of Justice to go after and indict political opponents, as he claims — falsely — that his political opponents have done against him.
Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, told Univision News that the so-called “weaponization” of federal law enforcement “could certainly happen in reverse.”
Meanwhile, federal officials are trying to find the person responsible for sending dozens of suspicious letters to election offices across the country. The letters were sent to six states, and at least one of them contained the powerful opioid, fentanyl.
It's this kind of political violence which is quickly eroding American democracy, according to Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University, frequent commentator and author of several books.
“But, alas, here we are in 2023, due to gerrymandering, due to police force intimidation, due to corrupt state officials and more, we’re finding pockets of the country where people are terrified to go vote that they’re going to be targeted,” he said. “I have talked to a lot of Latino voters who don’t vote because they said they might have a cousin that’s here illegally from Mexico or Venezuela or somewhere and they don’t want to go and show up and vote because people will be there photographing them and somehow connecting it to their family.
“There are all sorts of old Jim Crow type of voter intimidation activities going on, and we just have to ignore them and bust the perpetrators of them,” Brinkley added. “But people have to vote. There will be no country if we don’t have historic and epic voting in 2024.”
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