Voter Suppression is an Addiction

If we could break our nasty habit, we would be a democracy

It is hard to talk about addiction.  Addiction frightens and shames.  It is hard to talk about the current Republican addiction to voter suppression.  What can we say?  I think we have to say something.

Addiction has a way of making a caricature of people.  Addicts pretend to be themselves, sometimes convincingly.  Addiction crowds out everything except …