[EL] Manchin

[Steve Hoersting]

The Manchin approach is brilliant. I would be surprised if he isn’t submitting the proposal on behalf of a wise tactician.

… a very wise tactician: The People must believe in elections, after all, else what’s the point? (And H.R. 1 is — in the public mind —on that metric, now a nonstarter).

I.D. will go National, in form or another, in the near term. And will be available to all, regardless of status. Team Manchin would know that. (National Security, is as good a rationale as any). Thus keeping a certain amount of … well, fluidity, in the system.

And maintenance of the rolls will not be a barrier once new arrivals get status. How far off can that be?

The Manchin compromise isn’t as brilliant as Ellen Weintraub’s October 2015 NYT op-Ed — which I praised to the hilt for its strategic genius, at the time. But it’s in the same vein.

The larger problem will remain — for followers of Ellen … and of Senator Manchin:

What to do when the new arrivals deploy Newton’s Scientific Method — as a certain percentage of humanity must — and find themselves wanting, for themselves, independently premised economic prosperity — no less than do a goodly portion of the 330 Million of us already here — those already voting in the Several States… after reasonably free speech campaigns… on reasonably maintained voter rolls?

All the best,

Steve

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