No Angelo. Stop putting words in my fingers. I never said that all past elections that were won by Republicans were due to voter suppression. I only said that Republicans have been using this technique recently in some elections.
I'm familiar with what Derec posted, as I read that same article prior to posting, but the article doesn't tell the entire story. For example, when the rolls are purged, many currently active voters are removed by mistake without their knowledge. And, they do target certain areas when they purge the rolls. There have been many articles about how both college students and racial minorities have been targeted. Both of these groups tend to vote for Democrats. Plus, preventing people from voting because there is one letter misspelled on their registration is an example of voter suppression.
And, todays Republicans are nothing like past Republicans. Republicans used to be willing to compromise and work with Democrats. They used to have some integrity. Nixon even started the EPA and considered working toward some type of UHC, but it didn't get anywhere. Ike was the Republican president who warned us about the dangers of building up the military industrial complex. Those two were presidents during my childhood. The current Republican Party bears no resemblance to what it was in the past.
The very same thing can be said about the Democratic Party. It bears no resemblance to the party of a JFK, or even the Clinton years. What is masquerading as the Democratic Party today are a truckload of far left and Obama like appeasement wackos that given the chance would bankrupt America alla Venezuela route within a very short time.
Wrong again. The Democratic Party has always been a very diverse party. It's always contains those from the far, middle and center left as well as a few that might be considered right of center. In 1972, George McGovern was the Democratic candidate. In some ways, McGovern was as far to the left as today's far left candidates. Unfortunately, he lost in a landslide. Being young and idealistic, I voted for him, as he certainly was a much better and more honest candidate compared to Nixon. It was the fist time I was old enough to vote because the voting age was 21 until, thanks to boomer activism during the Viet Nam War, it was lowered to 18. What many of us, now older adults, learned from that experience, is that center left or left of center candidates have a much better chance of winning national elections that do far left candidates. The Democratic Party is still mostly made up of moderates. It's just that those who are the furthest left are also the most vocal these days. That doesn't mean they will win in 2020. Even if one does, their idealistic plans will never become law, so I have no problem voting for the candidate who wins the primaries.
And, Obama was never that far left. He was center left, but unlike our current president, he tried to represent the entire country and not just his base. That was used against him by both the Republicans who obstructed him at every turn and the more left leaning Democrats who felt he wasn't progressive enough to please them. Unless it was pure racism, I have never understood why so many people on the right despised Obama so much. He was one of the most dignified and honest presidents in my life time. He was certainly overly optimist about what he thought he could accomplish and perhaps too naive and inexperienced. But compared to most presidents, he wasn't deeply flawed. Obama was the one presidency that was scandal free, despite what some Republicans claim. The Republicans tried to pin scandals on him or his administration but could never come up with the evidence to support their claims. Benghazi is the example I remember best. I watched almost all 11 hours of the Republicans badgering Clinton. She had good answers for every one of their concerns and they finally gave up, after seemingly realizing that they had nothing on her. And, unlike the orange menace, Obama never let personal criticisms make him act like a spoiled child. He was better than that.
Neither of the parties has ever been close to perfect and no president has ever been close to perfect. Humans never are. But, nothing has ever come close to the incompetence and corruption of the current president. He has no respect and little understanding of the rule of law, or the constitution. The fact that the entire Republican Party allows him to get away with such corruption and incompetence is disgusting.
Clinton was impeached for lying about sex. I personally wanted him to resign, but still felt he was better than his opponents. He wasn't a terrible president, despite his personal flaws. He realized that in order to get anything done, he had to compromise. I didn't like some of the things that were passed during his presidency, but I watched a lot of Congress live on CSPAN and I can tell you that if we had a Republican president during those years, things would have been much worse. Compromise is how you make progress, but that seems to be something that those on both ends of the spectrum no longer respect.
In any case, he is not "my" orange moron. 
