Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Biden’s Voting Rights Bluster Recycles Failed Strategy

If the president really thinks democracy is in peril, he’d do more than urge enactment of bills he knows to be dead.

July 13, 2021 at 9:45 PM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

At least he looked serious.
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President Joe Biden says the U.S. is facing a crisis of democracy, but he’s not acting as though he believes it.

In a speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Biden said that the voting system is threatened as it has not been since the Civil War. His recommended solution is to pass legislation that has been known for months to be dead in Congress and that wouldn’t address the chief problem even if successful.