The Republican Party faces an ongoing demographic barrier to remaining relevant. A key part of their response to this is to disenfranchise as many progressive voters as possible. Once enshrined in law, these changes are almost impossible to reverse, because those most seriously affected no longer have a voice in our democracy - and are thus reduced to a substandard tier of citizenship.
Whether one is a woman who changed her name when she married, a poor person who doesn't have a passport, or even a public figure who moves fluidly between using her birth surname, her husbands surname, and a hyphenated version of both, the effect is the same - disenfranchisement.
Even a small number of Democrats voting for this outrageous attack on fairness lends it a transparent patina of bipartisanship. We cannot allow the center to be moved so far to the side of unfairness ... or leave it to the Senate to display the courage lacking in our representatives.
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