Keith Ellison Says He Is Ready to Fight for Democracy in North Carolina and Across America
Keith Ellison Says He Is Ready to Fight for Democracy in North Carolina—and Across America
John Nichols
The Nation
“You gotta be in the fight,” declares Ellison, a Democratic congressman from Minnesota who currently serves as co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “I will be.”
Ellison recognizes that, while this fight may focus initially on North Carolina, it is a national struggle.
He also recognizes that this is an old fight. Meddling with the rules to undermine, weaken, and dismiss the will of the people is nothing new.
In the “Old South” of overt segregation and Jim Crow governance, politicians regularly changed the rules in order to assure that democracy would not become a burden to the existing order.
The congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair has a long history of working on voting rights and democracy issues—in Minnesota and nationally. Now he is ripping into the assault on democracy in North Carolina as a “coup.” He says “we have to stand against it. It’s undemocratic. It’s un-Republican. It’s un-American.”
Ellison is not just another top Democrat. As a contender for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, he is signaling that he wants the DNC to take the lead in fights to write rules that favor (rather than thwart) democracy.
Mr. Ellison is correct ... except ... is it really "un-Republican"?
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