Byron York’s Daily Memo: Joe Biden’s voting rights theater
The whole scene was too much for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The president’s talk about Jim Crow and the Civil War is “nonsense,” McConnell said in a floor speech Wednesday. “It would be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren’t so irresponsible.” The same is true, McConnell said, for the Texas Democrats. “They just come here to Washington to snap selfies, bask in the limelight, and beg Senate Democrats to take over Texas’s elections,” he added. “Once again, the outrage is completely phony.”
McConnell was right, of course, but in voting rights theater the outrage doesn’t have to be genuine. Its messaging, directed to the Democratic Party’s progressive base and the media outlets that keep them in a constant state of agitation. And in that, both President Biden and the Texas Democrats are succeeding.