I think more precisely, the president is the one who thinks his party can't win if they don't cheat.
Sorry, but there's a lot of both-sidesism here. Your tit-for-tat analysis left out the most important and most popular part of the 2021 bill -- non-partisan redistricting commissions.
It's true that many partisan election issues don't actually favor one party over the other. However, the principle of Dem-favored initiatives is that free, fair, and accessible elections are a right, and that citizens shouldn't have to jump through hoops to solve a problems that doesn't exist (yes, technically address problems that have a vanishingly small effect on elections that also doesn't favor one party over the other).
The GOP leadership on the other hand spreads unpatriotic lies about our election system that serve to unjustly undermine Americans' confidence in it. Lies that divide and weaken our nation. Disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters for every invalid vote they hope to prevent is not a good tradeoff.
There is a big difference between those two stances; not just "they both think the other side has to cheat to win".
For me it's not the "winning," but the principle of democracy...one adult citizen=one vote. But that principle is grievously undermined by Citizens United and oligarchs (and their takeover of media ownership), where vast fortunes can sway the vote.
I think more precisely, the president is the one who thinks his party can't win if they don't cheat.
Sorry, but there's a lot of both-sidesism here. Your tit-for-tat analysis left out the most important and most popular part of the 2021 bill -- non-partisan redistricting commissions.
It's true that many partisan election issues don't actually favor one party over the other. However, the principle of Dem-favored initiatives is that free, fair, and accessible elections are a right, and that citizens shouldn't have to jump through hoops to solve a problems that doesn't exist (yes, technically address problems that have a vanishingly small effect on elections that also doesn't favor one party over the other).
The GOP leadership on the other hand spreads unpatriotic lies about our election system that serve to unjustly undermine Americans' confidence in it. Lies that divide and weaken our nation. Disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters for every invalid vote they hope to prevent is not a good tradeoff.
There is a big difference between those two stances; not just "they both think the other side has to cheat to win".
For me it's not the "winning," but the principle of democracy...one adult citizen=one vote. But that principle is grievously undermined by Citizens United and oligarchs (and their takeover of media ownership), where vast fortunes can sway the vote.
Typo in the last line. Practitioners.