It’s back. The demagogic and dishonest “Jim Crow 2.0” smear has returned to our political discourse, once again courtesy of Democrats fighting tooth and nail against common-sense election integrity measures.

Last time they trotted it out, this smear was deployed against Georgia’s sensible law, which has resulted in the opposite of the fear-mongerers’ cataclysmic predictions of racist “voter suppression.” Leftists lied unceasingly about that law, bamboozling spineless corporations and organizations such as Major League Baseball, Delta Air Lines, and Coca-Cola into joining their fact-free mob. Now that reality has dismantled their hysterical mendacity in consecutive election cycles — voter participation has increased across the board — they’ve moved on to their next fake outrage.

Congressional Republicans are pushing the SAVE Act, which seeks to ensure that only verified U.S. citizens can register to vote and participate in elections. Democrats have reflexively denounced this idea as racism and sexism — they say this about virtually every Republican idea — with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) leaning hard into the “Jim Crow” talking point. He vowed to kill the “dead on arrival” bill using the filibuster, which itself has been decried by Democrats as a Jim Crow relic. Except, naturally, when they use it promiscuously when in the minority, in which case they’re happy to fight “Jim Crow” with a tool they’ve also called “Jim Crow.” If this is confusing, simply remember the........

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