The investigative reporter Jane Mayer lately obtained a recording of a assembly attended by conservative energy brokers, together with Grover Norquist, representatives of PACs funded by Charles Koch, and an aide to Senator Mitch McConnell. The topic was the voting-rights invoice H.R. 1, and the temper was anxious. The invoice (discussed in final week’s episode) would broadly make voting extra accessible—which tends to profit Democratic candidates—and would increase the curtain on “dark money” in elections by way of stringent disclosure necessities. The drawback for these conservatives, a political strategist says, is that the invoice is fashionable amongst voters of each events, however H.R. 1, they insist, should die. As we hear the assembly’s individuals tick by way of choices to tarnish the invoice’s public enchantment, Mayer notes how the political winds have shifted in Washington, leaving the Republican coalition newly fragile.
