More evidence of Republican radical right anti-democratic authoritarianism and mendacity

Although we all knew it in our guts based on the evidence available at the time, more empirical evidence has come to light to buttress what our guts already knew. Good 'ole guts. Sometimes, they are right.[1] The New York Times writes:

New Findings Detail Trump Plan to Use Census for Partisan Gain

A new trove of memos and emails suggests that the plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census aimed to cause an undercount that would favor Republicans.

A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed that the Trump administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the census to help Republicans win elections, not to protect people’s voting rights, a House committee report concluded on Wednesday.

The documents provided the most definitive evidence yet that the Trump administration aimed to exclude noncitizens from the count to influence congressional apportionment that would benefit the Republican Party, the report concluded, and that senior officials used a false pretext to build a legal case for asking all residents of the United States whether they were American citizens.

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had said in congressional testimony that the government decided to add the question because it required more accurate data on citizenship to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But the Supreme Court in June 2019 ruled that the rationale “appears to have been contrived,” and a week later the Trump administration abandoned its quest to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census.

“For years, the Trump administration delayed and obstructed the oversight committee’s investigation into the true reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even after the Supreme Court ruled the administration’s efforts were illegal,” said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, chairwoman of the committee.  

“Today’s committee memo pulls back the curtain on this shameful conduct and shows clearly how the Trump administration secretly tried to manipulate the census for political gain while lying to the public and Congress about their goals,” she said.

Shameful conduct? That’s inexcusable wuss. 

If what Maloney said is true, how about calling it illegal because it is illegal? Why do Democrats not have the guts to call a liar a liar, a lawbreaker a lawbreaker, a criminal a criminal, or a traitor a traitor? WTF is their effing problem with speaking blunt truth? Do Dem elites really think shying away from and softening truth that is inconvenient for fascist Republican thugs and liars going to get some benefit for them or the country? If that is what they are thinking, if one assumes that they are thinking at all, they and their guts are just plain wrong.

Our guts are just fine, but Democratic Party leadership guts are broken.

Footnote: 

1. When it comes to divining the rhetoric and behavior from the always mendacious, fascist Republican Party elites, our guts are right about 97% of the time. Their denials and assertions of innocence are overwhelmingly lies, slanders and bullshit.