The GOP strategy to hold on to power

Wisconsin’s recall election on Scott Walker: A bid for regular order – The Washington Post by EJ Dionne

Walker is being challenged not because he pursued conservative policies but because Wisconsin has become the most glaring example of a new and genuinely alarming approach to politics on the right. It seeks to use incumbency to alter the rules and tilt the legal and electoral playing field decisively toward the interests of those in power.

The most obvious way of gaming the system is to keep your opponents from voting in the next election. Rigging the electorate is a surefire way of holding on to office. That is exactly what has happened in state after state — Wisconsin is one of them — where GOP legislatures passed new laws on voter identification and registration.

Wisconsin’s recall election on Scott Walker: A bid for regular order – The Washington Post

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